Author-Assigned Keywords versus Library of Congress Subject Headings

Strader, C. Rockelle

doi:10.5860/lrts.53n4.243

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“…In terms of the discoverability of bibliographic records, the use of LCSH significantly complements keywords by providing further unique terms for searching and matching, even in the presence of enhancements such as abstracts. 138 McCutcheon, in 2011, also discusses the issue of providing access to electronic theses and dissertations. 139 Because only sophisticated scholars seek out ETD repositories, metadata records need to be integrated with databases such as OCLC WorldCat.…”

Section: Addition Of Tocs and Summaries/abstractsmentioning

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Still a Lot to Lose: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Keyword Searching

Gross

Taylor

Joudrey

2014

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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In their 2005 study, Gross and Taylor found that more than a third of records retrieved by keyword searches would be lost without subject headings. A review of the literature since then shows that numerous studies, in various disciplines, have found that a quarter to a third of records returned in a keyword search would be lost without controlled vocabulary. Other writers, though, have continued to suggest that controlled vocabulary be discontinued. Addressing criticisms of the Gross/Taylor study, this study replicates the search process in the same online catalog, but after the addition of automated enriched metadata such as tables of contents and summaries. The proportion of results that would be lost remains high.

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Section: Addition Of Tocs and Summaries/abstractsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Still a Lot to Lose: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Keyword Searching

Gross

Taylor

Joudrey

2014

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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“…Authors choose keywords representing what they regard as the most significant descriptors of the content of their work (Névéol, Dogan, & Lu, 2010). This may result in duplication, as keywords are commonly terms appearing in the abstract (Mack, 2012;Strader, 2011). Furthermore, limitations on the number of keywords an author can nominate during the manuscript submission process, and whether these keywords/phrases are determined from a controlled vocabulary or using natural language influences keyword selection (Peh & Ng, 2008).…”

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Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature, 1980-2016

Menadue

Cheer

2017

Sage Open

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This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To capture a representative range of research, the PRISMA process was applied to database searches across a range of disciplines, not restricted to science fiction journals. Findings revealed that science fiction literature has been used in research across disciplines including theology, semantics, natural sciences, and education. Two characteristics of the use of science fiction in research became evident in the review: its role as a tool for advocacy and cultural insight and its effectiveness as an aid to learning and teaching. An unclear boundary between real science and science in the public imagination is problematic for research success, but the purposeful integration of fictional representations of science (both natural and social) into the research story has demonstrable benefits. To address the limited application of objective methodologies, adoption of increasingly robust quantitative analysis into research in the fields of literature and culture is recommended. This would assist in bridging the two cultures divide between the humanities and natural sciences.Keywords convergence, fiction, methodology, multidisciplinary, science communication, two cultures 2 SAGE Open increasingly complex and unstable social and intellectual reality, it absorbed and softened the impact of that complexity by depicting possible futures as being similarly iconoclastic and haphazard (Greenland, 1983). It has even been argued that the intermingling of science fiction and fact regarding the creation of artificial intelligences and synthetic humans permeates our culture so deeply that it influences our existential relationship with God (Geraci, 2007).Science fiction questions the role, relevance, costs, and benefits of current and future technologies, and presents ideas that can influence public opinion. Brian Stableford claimed that science fiction could determine the worldview of individuals, by the modification of attitudes to the significance of current and future science and technology (Stableford, 1979). Marshall Tymn agreed that as a literature, science fiction equips us to accept change as natural and inevitable (Tymn, 1985). As change is a natural outcome of applied scientific research, science fiction has been employed as a tool by researchers to provide metaphors, analogies, and models that describe the findings of their research (Bina, Mateus, Pereira, & Caffa, 2017;Hansen, 2004;Kotasek, 2015;McIntire, 1982;Toscano, 2011). Human acceptance of change is difficult and resists authoritative statements of fact, as has been identified in applied psychological and sociological studies (Nyhan, Reifler, Richey, & Freed, 2014;Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992). Science fiction is an effective agent for change, and, as Stableford (1979) has suggested, it also has a "directive effect" on people's interpretations of science. Ann Rigney desc...

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“…Éste es el caso de los trabajos de Gil-Leiva y Rodríguez-Muñoz (1997) o, más recientemente, los trabajos de Jaewoo y Woonsan (2014) y Lu y otros (2020). Algunos analizan sus coincidencias con elementos de lenguajes controlados como los encabezamientos de materias de la Library of Congress (Strader, 2011), o con los descriptores controlados y asignados por indizadores profesionales en diversas bases de datos (Gil Leiva y Alonso Arroyo, 2005).…”

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Redes y comunidades de descriptores en artículos de Biblioteconomía y Ciencia de la Información (1971-2020)

Figuerola

Mercado²,

Rodriguez³

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Scire

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En este artículo se examinan las palabras clave con que los autores describen sus propios trabajos académicos, a partir de los artículos del campo temático Libtary and Information Science del WoS, entre 1971 y 2020. Mediante algoritmos de búsqueda de comunidades propios del análisis de redes se han identificado los principales subcampos temáticos de investigación en esta disciplina y se han analizado sus evoluciones temporales a través del uso de redes dinámicas. Los resultados muestran que algunos descriptores aparecen de manera habitual en el intervalo temporal, pero asociados con diferentes descriptores a lo largo de los años, lo cual es indicativo de una especialización temática. Existen también grupos de descriptores autocontenidos, dibujando subcampos temáticos bien definidos desde sus primeras apariciones. Por otra parte, encontramos comunidades de descriptores bien perfiladas y con metodologías bien asentadas en unas determinadas fechas, que se van expandiendo en el tiempo, añadiendo otros descriptores de especialización, que, asimismo, permiten conectar con otras comunidades temáticas. De las trece áreas encontradas, las principales se han agrupado en torno a seis amplios descriptores interrelacionados: bibliometrics, library, e_government, e_commerce, information_literacy y knowledge_management, cuyas evoluciones se manifiestan con diferentes pautas.

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Author-Assigned Keywords versus Library of Congress Subject Headings

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Still a Lot to Lose: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Keyword Searching

Still a Lot to Lose: The Role of Controlled Vocabulary in Keyword Searching

Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature, 1980-2016

Redes y comunidades de descriptores en artículos de Biblioteconomía y Ciencia de la Información (1971-2020)

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