Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries Export

@incollection{citeulike:6081275, abstract = {With the significant growth in the number of available electronic documents on the Internet, intranets, and digital libraries, the need for developing effective methods and systems to index and organize E-documents is felt more than ever. In this paper we introduce a new method for automatic text classification for categorizing E-documents by utilizing classification metadata of books, journals and other library holdings, that already exists in online catalogues of libraries. The method is based on identifying all references cited in a given document and, using the classification metadata of these references as catalogued in a physical library, devising an appropriate class for the document itself according to a standard library classification scheme with the help of a weighting mechanism. We have demonstrated the application of the proposed method and assessed its performance by developing a prototype classification system for classifying electronic syllabus documents archived in the Irish National Syllabus Repository according to the well-known Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) scheme.}, author = {Joorabchi, Arash and Mahdi, Abdulhussain}, citeulike-article-id = {6081275}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_3}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m34k65u43r2g3x53}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_3}, journal = {Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries}, keywords = {classification--automatic, digital\_libraries, knowledge-organization}, pages = {3--14}, posted-at = {2009-11-06 16:55:26}, priority = {3}, title = {Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_3}, year = {2009} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:6081275 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6081275 N2 - With the significant growth in the number of available electronic documents on the Internet, intranets, and digital libraries, the need for developing effective methods and systems to index and organize E-documents is felt more than ever. In this paper we introduce a new method for automatic text classification for categorizing E-documents by utilizing classification metadata of books, journals and other library holdings, that already exists in online catalogues of libraries. The method is based on identifying all references cited in a given document and, using the classification metadata of these references as catalogued in a physical library, devising an appropriate class for the document itself according to a standard library classification scheme with the help of a weighting mechanism. We have demonstrated the application of the proposed method and assessed its performance by developing a prototype classification system for classifying electronic syllabus documents archived in the Irish National Syllabus Repository according to the well-known Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) scheme. JF - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries EP - 14 TI - Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries SP - 3 KW - classification--automatic KW - digital_libraries KW - knowledge-organization AU - Joorabchi, Arash AU - Mahdi, Abdulhussain PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_3 ER -