Enriching Subject
Access
Part 1. Metadata Enrichment for Subject Access (
Part 2. Bringing
subject access together through interoperability (
Joint
Program of the
ALCTS
Metadata Enrichment Task Force
and
the
ALCTS
Subject Analysis Committee's Subcommittee on Semantic Interoperability
Part 1. Metadata Enrichment for Subject Access (
Introduces the Bates' proposal for clustering vocabulary to improve
subject access.
Speaker 1:
Judith Ahronheim, will provide an introduction and
will summarize Marcia Bates'
publication
"Improving User Access to Library Catalog and Portal Information."
This will
be followed by responses by three vendors proposing methods for clustering
subjects as an aid to searching.
Speaker 2:
Michael Kaplan, Ex Libris responder
Speaker 3:
Deb Bendig, OCLC responder
Speaker 4:
Steve Neilsen, Dynix
responder
Each
responder will answer the following questions:
1. What
value, if any do you see in the clustered vocabulary? Are there
alternative
ways to achieve the desired result?
2. Which,
if any of the tools and techniques described would you consider
using in
one or more of your products.
3. How
would such a service need to be configured in order for you to make
use of
it?
Part 2. Bringing Subject Access Together Through Interoperability (
Linking,
mapping and managing are methods used to improve user retrieval across various
languages, subject vocabularies and classification schemes.
Speaker 1:
Lois Mai Chan, Professor,
Speaker 2:
Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, CENL
Chairman, Director Swiss National Library: Cross-language subject access to information: challenges and solutions,
the example of MACS
Speaker 3:
– Pat Kuhr, Wilson Company: Putting the World Back
Together: Mapping Multiple Vocabularies into a Single Thesaurus
Speaker 4:
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research Scientist: Advancing Semantic
Interoperability through Terminology Services
Addressing
different interoperability issues, the three speakers will be asked to address:
1) description of their project
2) what techniques underlie their structure
3)
evaluation/stage of development of their project
4)
cost/benefit (dollars and/or labor and/or time)
Part 1. Metadata Enrichment for Subject Access. Judith Ahronheim,
Part 2. Bringing Subject Access Together Through Interoperability.
Shelby E. Harken, University of North Dakota, ALCTS
SAC Subcommittee on Semantic Interoperability Chair shelby_harken@und.nodak.edu
Of interest:
Bates, M. J. (1998). Indexing and access for digital
libraries and the Internet: Human,
database, and domain factors. Journal of the American
Society for Information
Science,
49(13), 1185-1205.
Bates,
M.J. (2002a) The cascade of interactions in the
digital library interface.
Information
Processing & Management, 38, 381-400.
Bates,
Marcia J. (2002b) “Speculations on Browsing, Directed Searching, and Linking in
Relation
to the
Proceedings
of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and
Information
Science (CoLIS4), Edited by Harry Bruce, Raya Fidel,
Peter
Ingwersen, and Pertti Vakkari.
2002, pp.
137-150.
Bates,
M.J. (2002c) Toward an integrated model of information
seeking and searching.
The New
Review of Information Behavior Research, 3, 1-15.
Bates,
Marcia (2003) "Improving User Access to Library Catalog and Portal
Information"
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/2.3BatesReport6-03.doc.pdf
Chan, Lois Mai (2001). “Exploiting LCSH, LCC, and DDC to Retrieve Networked Resources: Issues and
Challenges,” in Proceedings of the
Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium (
Chan, Lois Mai (2001). "A Faceted Approach to Subject
Data in the Dublin Core Metadata Record," co-authored with Eric Childress,
Rebecca Dean, Edward T. O'Neill, and Diane Vizine-Goetz
in Journal of Internet Cataloging 4(1/2)(2001):35-47
Chan, Lois Mai (2002). "Ensuring Interoperability
among Subject Vocabularies and Knowledge Organization Schemes: A Methodological
Analysis,” (by Lois Mai Chan and Marcia Lei Zeng) IFLA Journal 28(5/6)(2002):323-27
Draft
documents being developed by the ALCTS CCS SAC Subcommittee on Semantic
Interoperability: http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/library/Departments/abc/subjhead.htm#SACSEM
Landry,
Patrice (2000). The MACS Project: Multilingual Access to Subjects (LCSH,
RAMEAU, SWD) 66th IFLA Council and General Conference,
MACS
: Multilingual access to subjects. http://infolab.kub.nl/prj/macs/
OCLC Metadata Switch. http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/mswitch/default.htm
OCLC Terminology Services. http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/default.htm
This program was supported by a contribution from Haworth Press