Reference structures: Stagnation, progress, and future challenges

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 108-119

  Greenberg, Jane ^a  

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1. The CONDOC (1981) report can be found at http://hsl-mac4.med.ohiostate.edu/Catalog_Use/research.html.
2. Because of the early stage of WebCAT development, the sampling for this paper was limited to OPACs accessed by direct telnet or tn3270 connections.
3. Library of Congress Subject Headings, 20th ed. (Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, LC, 1997-).
4. Research conducted for this paper in the spring and early summer of 1996 found many OPACs without any reference structures. However, a more recent informal review of OPACs reveals a noticeable increase in the number of OPACs supporting reference structures.
5. Example of a non-LCSH heading provided by Daniel CannCasciato, Head of Cataloging, Central Washington University Library, e-mail correspondence, May 28, 1997.
6. Charles Ammi Cutter, Rules for a Dictionary Catalog, 4th ed., rewritten (Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1904).
7. E-mail correspondence with Daniel CannCasciato, May 23, 1996, and May 28, 1997.
8. E-mail correspondence from Ruth Bogan, Authorities Librarian, Cooperative Cataloging Services, May 23, 1996, and telephone consultation June 9, 1997.
9. Medical Subject Headings (Bethesda, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1995); and Transportation Subject Heading Authority List (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ., Transportation Library, 1989); Tony Olson and Gary Strawn, "Mapping the LCSH and MeSH Systems," Information Technology and Libraries 16, no. 1 (Mar. 1995): 5-19.
10. Medical Subject Headings (Bethesda, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1995); and Transportation Subject Heading Authority List (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ., Transportation Library, 1989); Tony Olson and Gary Strawn, "Mapping the LCSH and MeSH Systems," Information Technology and Libraries 16, no. 1 (Mar. 1995): 5-19.
11. Eric Johnson and Pauline Cochrane, A Hypertextual Interface for a Searcher's Thesaurus (Digital Libraries, 1995): http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/johncoch/johncoch.html.
12. E-mail correspondence from Gregory Wool, Chair of the Subject Analysis Committee, Subcommittee on Subject Relationships/Reference Structures, May 22, 1995.
13. Michel's taxonomy was compiled as part of his ALA activities and his own personal research interests. Assistance was provided by Pat Kuhr, Editor of Subject Files, Wilson Index.
14. E-mail correspondence with Elisa Lanzi, Acting Manager, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Nov. 27, 1995, and June 9, 1997, and "Points of View Forum: AHIP Vocabularies, Collection Management Systems, and Users," minutes of the ICHIM/MCN Conference, San Diego, Calif., Oct. 11, 1995.
15. Nathan Robertson, "Entity-Relationship Diagramming and SQL Programming for an Online Library System Authority Control Module," manuscript copy, Apr. 1996. Robertson is now a preservation librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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17. Tom Gruber, "What Is an Ontology," http://www-ksl. stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html.
18. Art & Architecture Thesaurus, 2d ed. (New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1994).
19. Gruber, "What Is an Ontology," and The Role of Standard Knowledge Representation for Sharing Knowledge-Based Technology, Report, no. KSL 90-53 (Stanford, Calif.: Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford Univ., 1990).
20. For more information on this topic consult the "Sharable Ontology Library," maintained at Stanford University at http://WWW-KSL/ Stanford.EDU/knowledge-sharing/ontologies/html.
21. Rebecca Green, "Topical Relevance Relationships. I. Why Topic Matching Fails," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46, no. 9 (Oct. 1995): 646-53; Rebecca Green and Carol A. Bean, "Topical Relevance Relationships. II. An Exploratory Study and Preliminary Typology," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46, no. 9 (Oct. 1995): 654-62; and Rebecca Green, "Syntagmatic Relationships on Index Languages: A Reassessment," Library Quarterly 65, no. 4 (Oct. 1995): 365-85.
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24. Office of Subject Cataloging Policy, Library of Congress, Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings, rev. 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, LC, 1991), supplementary pages 1991-; Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri. (ANSI/NISO Z39.19 1993) (Bethesda, Md.: NISO Pr., 1994).
25. Office of Subject Cataloging Policy, Library of Congress, Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings, rev. 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, LC, 1991), supplementary pages 1991-; Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri. (ANSI/NISO Z39.19 1993) (Bethesda, Md.: NISO Pr., 1994).
26. Green and Bean, "Topical Relevance Relationships. II."
27. Heide Lee Hoerman, Instructor at the University of South Carolina, College of Library and Information Science, and Ph.D. candidate at Indiana State University, School of Library and Information Science, is researching OPAC displays of LCSH for her dissertation.
28. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, eds., "Terminological Databases," in Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative, 1994), also available at http://www.uic.edu/orgs/ tei/p3/doc/p3te.doc.
29. Celia D. Shapiro and Puck-Fai Yan, "Generous Tools: Thesauri in Digital Libraries," manuscript copy, Mar. 26, 1996.