Carol a Bean

Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge - Information Science and Knowledge Management Carol a Bean

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction. Part I: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: Theoretical Background. 1. Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: An Overview; R. Green. 2. Bibliographic Relationships; B. B. Tillett. 3. Thesaural Relationships; S. G. Dextre Clarke. 4. Standards for Relationships between Subject Indexing Terms; J. L. Milstead. 5. Relationships in Multilingual Thesauri; M. Hudon. 6. Relationships among Knowledge Structures: Vocabulary Integration within a Subject Domain; O. Bodenreider, C. A. Bean. 7. Relationships in Classificatory Structure and Meaning; C. Beghtol. 8. Relevance Relationships; C. A. Bean, R. Green. Part II: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: Systems. 9. Relationships in Library of Congress Subject Headings; L. M. El-Hoshy. 10. The Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Controlling Relationships through Rules and Structure; P. Molholt. 11. Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH); S. J. Nelson, et al. 12. Lateral Relationships in Multicultural, Multilingual Databases in the Spiritual and Religious Domains: The OM Information Service; A. Neelameghan. 13. Relationships in Ranganathan's Colon Classification; M. P. Satija. 14. Relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification System; J. S. Mitchell. Index. Publisher Marketing: With a goal of improving retrieval in bibliographic environments, this volume takes stock of what we know about relationships in the overall bibliographic domain, with particular emphasis on relationships between subjects, relationships among bibliographic entities, and relationships between subject content and user needs. The volume presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world. It also looks to the future by providing guidance for relational tasks now taking on greater significance, as retrieval systems increasingly operate in automated modes and as retrieval systems cross linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together in one place the perspectives of some of the most prominent persons working in this arena, this volume should be of interest to a wide range of researchers and practitioners.