Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book
This paper presents a study of a strategy for automated cataloging within an OPAC or for online bibliographic catalogs generally. The aim of the analysis is to offer a set of results, while searching in library catalogs, that goes further than the expected one-to-one term correspondence. The goal is...
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| author | Ernesto William De Luca Francesca Fallucchi Roberto Morelato |
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| description | This paper presents a study of a strategy for automated cataloging within an OPAC or for online bibliographic catalogs generally. The aim of the analysis is to offer a set of results, while searching in library catalogs, that goes further than the expected one-to-one term correspondence. The goal is to understand how ontological structures can affect query search results. This analysis can also be applied to search functions other than in the library context, but in this case, cataloging relies on predefined rules and noncontrolled dictionary terms, which means that the results are meaningful in terms of knowledge organization. The approach was tested on an Edisco database, and we measured the system’s ability to detect whether a new incoming record belonged to a specific set of textbooks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-537a3f03b1244f1f948bb1916095be042023-11-22T22:57:08ZengMDPI AGComputers2073-431X2021-11-01101115510.3390/computers10110155Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a BookErnesto William De Luca0Francesca Fallucchi1Roberto Morelato2Department of Engineering Sciences, Guglielmo Marconi University, 00193 Roma, ItalyDepartment of Engineering Sciences, Guglielmo Marconi University, 00193 Roma, ItalyDepartment of Engineering Sciences, Guglielmo Marconi University, 00193 Roma, ItalyThis paper presents a study of a strategy for automated cataloging within an OPAC or for online bibliographic catalogs generally. The aim of the analysis is to offer a set of results, while searching in library catalogs, that goes further than the expected one-to-one term correspondence. The goal is to understand how ontological structures can affect query search results. This analysis can also be applied to search functions other than in the library context, but in this case, cataloging relies on predefined rules and noncontrolled dictionary terms, which means that the results are meaningful in terms of knowledge organization. The approach was tested on an Edisco database, and we measured the system’s ability to detect whether a new incoming record belonged to a specific set of textbooks.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/10/11/155automated classificationlibrary catalogDewey Decimal Classification |
| spellingShingle | Ernesto William De Luca Francesca Fallucchi Roberto Morelato Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book Computers automated classification library catalog Dewey Decimal Classification |
| title | Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book |
| title_full | Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book |
| title_fullStr | Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book |
| title_short | Teaching an Algorithm How to Catalog a Book |
| title_sort | teaching an algorithm how to catalog a book |
| topic | automated classification library catalog Dewey Decimal Classification |
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