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Consistency of subject indexing of novels by public library professionals and patrons Export

by: J. Saarti
Journal of Documentation, Vol. 58, No. 1. (January 2002), pp. 49-65.

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Abstract: The paper discusses the consistency of fiction indexing of library professionals and patrons based on an empirical test. Indexing was carried out with a Finnish fictional thesaurus and all of the test persons indexed the same five novels. The consistency of indexing was determined to be low; several reasons are postulated. Also an algorithm for typified indexing of fiction is given as well as some suggestions for the development of fiction information retrieval systems and content representation.


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