University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dimensions and Discriminability: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Visualizing Document Associations

Dubin, David

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Title
Dimensions and Discriminability: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Visualizing Document Associations
Author(s)
Dubin, David
Issue Date
1998
Keyword(s)
  • digital Libraries
  • electronic information resources
  • subject access
  • controlled vocabulary
  • visualization
  • groupings
Abstract
Visualization interfaces can improve subject access by highlighting the inclusion of document representation components in similarity and discrimination relationships. Within a set of retrieved documents, what kinds of groupings can index terms and subject headings make explicit? The role of controlled vocabulary in classifying search output is examined.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources [papers presented at the 1997 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, March 2-4, 1997 Urbana-Champaign]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1997: Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources PRIMARY
34th Clinic of Library Applications of Data Processing (1997). Edited by Pauline Atherton Cochrane and Eric H. Johnson.