Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Enhancing Metadata Subject Elements with Weights

Subject indexing has been conducted in a dichotomous way in terms of what the information object is primarily about/of or not, corresponding to the presence or absence of a particular subject term, respectively. With more subject terms brought into information systems via social tagging, manual cata...

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Published in:	Information technology and libraries Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 75 - 80
Main Authors:	Zhang, Hong, Smith, Linda C., Twidale, Michael, Gao, Fang Huang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, IL American Library Association 01.06.2011
Subjects:	Cataloging Content analysis Digital imaging Digital libraries Electronic Libraries Exact sciences and technology Indexing Indexing (Content analysis) Indexing. Classification. Abstracting Indexing. Classification. Abstracting. Syntheses Information and communication sciences Information and document structure and analysis Information processing and retrieval Information retrieval Information science. Documentation Information systems Information technology Keywords Library catalogs Library collections Library of Congress Subject Headings Marking Metadata Methods Multiple database searches Navigation On-line systems Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Relevance Religion Schemas Sciences and techniques of general use Search theory Searches Social networks Social systems Studies Subject heading schemes Subject indexing Tagging Tags Trees Weighting United States United States > US Illinois Metadata Weighting Information system Content analysis Indexing
ISSN:	0730-9295, 2163-5226
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