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1 online resource |
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Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 What is a thesaurus?; The nature of a thesaurus; What does a thesaurus look like?; Applications of the thesaurus; The origin and development of the thesaurus; Summary; Notes; 3 Tools for subject access and retrieval; Systematically organized controlled languages; Alphabetically arranged, word-based controlled languages; Summary; Notes; 4 What a thesaurus is used for; The thesaurus as an indexing tool; The thesaurus as a search tool; The thesaurus as a browse and navigation tool; Summary; Notes; 5 Why use a thesaurus? |
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6 Types of thesaurusGeneral and special thesauri; Guides and directories of thesauri; Thesauri for non-textual resources; Thesauri for local collections; Summary; Notes; 7 The format of a thesaurus; The systematic display; The alphabetic display; Interdependence of the systematic and alphabetic display; Summary; Elements in the display; Summary; 8 Building a thesaurus 1: vocabulary collection; Existing vocabularies; Summary; Published literature; Summary; Other sources of vocabulary; Summary; Thesauri for local and general use; A model thesaurus; Deconstructing the vocabulary; Note |
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9 Vocabulary control 1: selection of termsThe selection of terms; Summary; Names; Summary; Disambiguation; Summary; Notes; 10 Vocabulary control 2 :form of entry; Grammatical forms; Summary; Spelling; Punctuation and other symbols; Summary; Plural and singular; Summary; Compound terms; Summary; Summary; 11 Building a thesaurus 2: term extraction from document titles; Identification of significant terms; Simple vocabulary control; Answers to exercises; 12 Building a thesaurus 3: vocabulary analysis; Facet analysis; Summary; Categories and facets; The stage 1 facet; Note; Answers to exercises |
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13 The thesaural relationshipsThe principal thesaural relationships; Other codes; Summary; USE and UF relationships: equivalence relationships and synonym control; Summary; Broader and narrower terms: relationships of hierarchy; Summary; Summary; Related terms and associative terms; Summary; 14 Building a thesaurus 4: introducing internal structure; Vocabulary control; Summary; Facets and arrays; Summary; Summary; Answers to exercises; 15 Building a thesaurus 5: imposing hierarchy; Hierarchical structure; Classification authorities; Hierarchy in different facets; Summary |
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16 Building a thesaurus 6: compound subjects and citation orderOrder of facets; Order of display of facets (filing order); Summary; Order of combination of terms (citation order); Summary; Combining and locating terms; Summary; The nature of compound terms; Summary; Keeping things in order: notation; Summary; 17 Building a thesaurus 7: conversion of the taxonomy to alphabetical format; Editing the schedule for conversion; Selecting the preferred terms; Summary; Identifying hierarchical relationships; Summary; Related terms; Summary; Answers to exercises |
| Summary |
Many information professionals fail to find the published tools for subject-based organization that are appropriate to their local needs. This text describes the characteristics of some types of subject tool, and takes through the process of creating a system. The methodology employed is a technique for the building of a thesaurus |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index |
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Print version record |
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Subject headings.
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Subject cataloging.
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Abstracting and Indexing
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subject cataloging.
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Subject cataloging
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Subject headings
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controlled vocabularies.
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Controlled vocabularies
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Controlled vocabularies.
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Vocabulaires contrôlés.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306342287 |
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9781306342285 |
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9781856049849 |
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1856049841 |
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