Problems of subject indexing in online library catalogues

• Authors: Prokne-Palik Maria
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Card catalogues have been replaced by automated catalogues in the library world. The data that earlier figured on card catalogue records, including UDC numbers, together form the database records. The use of UDC can be difficult because in order to determine the meaning of a number, we have to look up its natural language definition in the tables. Synonyms - terms having identical meanings but different forms - need to be related. Homonyms - terms having different meanings but identical form - need to be separated. With the creation of cross references it would be possible to avoid ambiguity in information retrieval languages as well as to keep track of the changes made in UDC numbers.

Keywords

EN

LIBRARY OPACS; SUBJECT INDEXING; UDC

Discipline

• LIBRARY_&_INFORMATION_SCIENCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

• Publisher: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, National Technical Information Centre and Library (BME OMIKK)
• Journal: Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 11/12
• Pages: 525-527
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Prokne-Palik Maria

• Maria Prokne-Palik, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA079232