Library Classification Schemes and Access to Electronic Collections: Enhancement of the Dewey Decimal Classification with Supplemental Vocabulary

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OCLC Investigates Using Classification Tools to Organize Internet Data

"The knowledge structures that form traditional library classification schemes hold great potential for improving resource description and discovery on the Internet and for organizing electronic document collections. The advantages of assigning subject tokens (classes) to documents from a scheme like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system are well documented and include: providing subject-oriented browsing structures; giving context to search terms; enabling search refinement; providing mechanisms for partitioning and manipulating results sets; and enabling multilingual access."published or submitted for publicatio

Web services for genre vocabularies

This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for controlled vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service oriented framework. A set of experimental services for genre vocabularies are provided through the MS Office Research pane, a built-in feature of Internet Explorer (IE) when users have loaded MS Office 2003. Web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera, also provide side-bars which could be used to deliver loosely-coupled Web services

Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval : Theory, Practice, and Potential /

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Automating bibliographic research: identifying American fiction, 1901-1925

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