Subject access in online catalogs: A design model Export

@article{citeulike:920563, abstract = {A model based on strikingly different philosophical assumptions from those currently popular is proposed for the design of online subject catalog access. Three design principles are presented and discussed: uncertainty (subject indexing is indeterminate and probabilistic beyond a certain point), variety (by Ashby's law of requisite variety, variety of searcher query must equal variety of document indexing), and complexity (the search process, particularly during the entry and orientation phases, is subtler and more complex, on several grounds, than current models assume). Design features presented are an access phase, including entry and orientation, a hunting phase, and a selection phase. An end-user thesaurus and a front-end system mind are presented as examples of online catalog system components to improve searcher success during entry and orientation.The proposed model is ?wrapped around? existing Library of Congress subject-heading indexing in such a way as to enhance access greatly without requiring reindexing. It is argued that both for cost reasons and in principle this is a superior approach to other design philosophies. {\\copyright} 1986 John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, address = {Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024}, author = {Bates, Marcia J.}, citeulike-article-id = {2551407}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198611)37:6%3C357::AID-ASI1%3E3.0.CO;2-H}, doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198611)37:6%3C357::AID-ASI1%3E3.0.CO;2-H}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, keywords = {access, bibtex-import, catalogues, opac, search, subject}, number = {6}, pages = {357--376}, posted-at = {2008-03-18 14:36:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Subject access in online catalogs: A design model}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198611)37:6%3C357::AID-ASI1%3E3.0.CO;2-H}, volume = {37}, year = {1986} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:920563 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2551407 N2 - A model based on strikingly different philosophical assumptions from those currently popular is proposed for the design of online subject catalog access. Three design principles are presented and discussed: uncertainty (subject indexing is indeterminate and probabilistic beyond a certain point), variety (by Ashby's law of requisite variety, variety of searcher query must equal variety of document indexing), and complexity (the search process, particularly during the entry and orientation phases, is subtler and more complex, on several grounds, than current models assume). Design features presented are an access phase, including entry and orientation, a hunting phase, and a selection phase. An end-user thesaurus and a front-end system mind are presented as examples of online catalog system components to improve searcher success during entry and orientation.The proposed model is ?wrapped around? existing Library of Congress subject-heading indexing in such a way as to enhance access greatly without requiring reindexing. It is argued that both for cost reasons and in principle this is a superior approach to other design philosophies. {\\copyright} 1986 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. IS - 6 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science AD - Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 EP - 376 TI - Subject access in online catalogs: A design model VL - 37 SP - 357 KW - access KW - bibtex-import KW - catalogues KW - opac KW - search KW - subject AU - Bates, Marcia PY - 1986/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198611)37:6%3C357::AID-ASI1%3E3.0.CO;2-H ER -