Scout report signpost: Design and development for access to cataloged internet resources

Ma, Aimee D. Glassel; Wells, Amy Tracy

doi:10.1080/19386389809512383

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“…It is used by the Scout Report Signpost in describing Internet resources. 10 Because LCSH is designed to describe monographs and serials, however, the authors were concerned that it might not be specific enough for Web-site description, because Web sites are shorter and more focused than books and are more analogous to articles Elaine A. Nowick and Margaret Mering 19 in serials.…”

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Comparisons Between Internet Users' Free-Text Queries and Controlled Vocabularies: A Case Study in Water Quality

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Mering

2003

Technical Services Quarterly

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Free-text query terms were recorded from the University of Nebraska Water Quality Web Site. Comparisons were made between 3,275 free-text searches representing 2,075 unique terms and three controlled vocabularies: Library of Congress Subject Headings, Water Resources Abstracts Thesaurus, and Aqualine Thesaurus 2. Between 30 percent and 40 percent of the free-text queries were exact matches to a term in one of the controlled vocabularies. Other user query terms varied from the controlled vocabularies in whether the term was singular or plural, in spelling, and in word endings. About 40 percent of the terms had no near matches. Around 15 percent of the users included a non-subject resource descriptor. Resource descriptions of most interest to searchers were keywords, geographical delineators, and genre/format terms.

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