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At the April 2002 CENDI meeting, Ms. Finch explained that the Agricultural Thesaurus has 17 high level categories and has been integrated into searching. The Thesaurus can be used to automatically search for a preferred term when the user enters a non-preferred term; or can be used to include narrower terms in a search; or can assist in resolving ambiguous terms. The thesaurus was funded by the Agricultural Research Service and is being investigated as a possible web service. It is currently used as a controlled vocabulary by AGNIC and is also used by National Program Staff at ARS for hierarchy and lead-in terms to enhance searching of their web site.
The indexing systems for seven CENDI agencies are described. Thesaurus and vocabulary development and maintenance technologies are also described. Challenges and plans for the future are outlined.
The workshop addresses information server technologies, search technologies and directory and online services. Participants are proponents of repository interface standards for distributed indexing and searching. The report begins with a two page summary of topics and outcomes. Three technical sessions were held on Distributed Data Collection, Data Transfer Formats, and Distributed Search Architectures. Follow-on discussion was on indexing and collecting information needed for indexing. Slides, session notes, outcomes, and quotes are included. Participant and position papers are available in PDF, Postscript and Word format. Standards to support searching and metadata tags were among topics discussed.
This document describes the draft Z39.50 profile for querying structured thesauri and displaying the results in a client/server environment.
This is a report that reviews the application of Knowledge Organization Systems to the digital environment. Such systems include term lists, classification schemes, glossaries, and thesauri.
This workshop -sponsored by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO); the American Psychological Association; the American Society of Indexers (ASI); and the Association for Library Collections and technical Services (ALCTS)- focused on the desirability and feasibility of developing a standard for electronic thesauri.
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This Web site provides access to OCLC's Annual Review of Research which covers OCLC Internet Services, PURLS, Digital Libraries, Copyright and a host of other library related research topics. Back issues of these reports are available from 1994.
Ms. Marsh provides a report from a presentation by Dr. McIlwaine, professor of library and information studies at the University of London at OCLC on October 26, 1999. Dr. Mcllwaine discussed the merits of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system and noted that its prinicipal difference from Dewey (DDC) was its flexibility. However its greatest strength-flexibility is also its greatest weakness because it lacks uniformity across libraries. Although bibliographic classifications are the basis of the UDC and the DDC, information classification is not limited to these systems. Librarians are urged to examine many different systems when constructing retrieval tools. She urged all to make greater efforts to coordinate what we are doing with the work of specialists in order to create adequate retrieval tools for the information that is available to us. We must reach some common agreement on both the systematic arrangements of concepts and vocabulary control. This will in turn improve communication and facilitate universal access to information.
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