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LCSH: Semantics, Syntax and Specificity

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY This paper looks at changes affecting LCSH over its 100-year history. Adopting a linguistic conceptualization, it frames these changes as relating to the semantics, syntax and pragmatics of the LCSH language. While its category semantics has remained stable over time, the LCSH relational semantics underwent a significant upheaval when a ...
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Lcsh and Precis in Music: A Comparison

The Library Quarterly, 1985
By studying examples of their applications by the two major English language bibliographic agencies, this article compares the strengths and weaknesses of PRECIS and LCSH as regards books about music. Quantitative analysis reveals that the number of PRECIS subject statements exceeds LC subject headings except with more generic works.
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LCSHand Periodical Indexing: Adoption vs. Adaptation

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY The Library of Congress Subjects Headings (and authority lists derived from LCSH) are used by the H. W. Wilson Company to index a wide variety of peridocials, including the most popular newsstand magazines, children's materials, trade magazines, professional journals, scholarly academic journals, and technical and scientific journals.
Joseph Miller, Patricia Kuhr
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Title Words as Entry Vocabulary to LCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1989
Dans le cadre d'une reflexion sur l'efficacite de l'utilisation d'un vocabulaire controle ou non pour l'acces par sujet dans les catalogues en ligne, se pose le probleme de l'utilisation des mots cles des titres, comme termes traduisant le sujet d'un document.
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Semantic Relationships Between Title Phrases and LCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1991
Successful subject searching depends upon the terminology of the search query. This paper compares the terminology of book titles with that of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) 1 on a semantic level. Methods of ananlyzing titles into title phrases that serve as matching units are described.
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Disciplinary Differences: LCSH and Keyword Assignment for ETDs from Different Disciplines

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2016
ABSTRACTThis research concerns the frequency of the assignment of author-supplied keyword strings and cataloger supplied subject heading strings within a library catalog. The results reveal that, on average, more author-assigned keywords and more cataloger-assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings were assigned to works emerging from the arts ...
Margaret Beecher Maurer, Shadi Shakeri
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Semantic Navigation on the web: the LCSH case study

2008
In this paper, an innovative ontology-based, information seeking process is proposed, capable of aiding searchers in their quest to fulfill their information needs. Such a process supports multilinguality and concept disambiguation in a way that prevents overcrowding the screen while exposing the expressiveness of the underlying ontology.
Ioannis Papadakis, Michalis Stefanidakis, Aikaterini Tzali   +2 more
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Integrating LCSH and MeSH in Information Systems

2003
Manuscript for a book chapter in Subject Retrieval in a Networked Environment (see full bibliographic citation), adapted from a presentation given at an IFLA Satellite Meeting held in Dublin, OH, 14-16 August 2001.
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Critical Views of LCSH, 1990–2001: The Third Bibliographic Essay

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2005
ABSTRACT This classified critical bibliography continues the work initiated by Monika Kirtland and Pauline Cochrane, and furthered by Steven Blake Shubert. Kirtland and Cochrane published a bibliography surveying the literature critical of LCSH from 1944-1979 titled “Critical Views of LCSH–Library of Congress Subject Headings, A Bibliographic and ...
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Out from Under: Form/Genre Access inLCSH

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2000
SUMMARY The provisions for access to genres and forms of library materials in LCSH are examined through a survey of Library of Congress policy over the century. This article focuses on main headings for literature and moving-image materials, and form subdivisions.
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