Measuring typographical errors' impact on retrieval in bibliographic databases

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 197-211

  Beall, Jeffrey ^a   Kafadar, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataloging errors; Errata; Online library catalogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547552838     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v44n03_03     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Jeffrey Beall, "Ideas: the Dirty Database Test," American Libraries 22:3 (1991): 197.
2. For an excellent summary see: D.W. Bade, Theory and Practice of Bibliographic Failure, or, Misinformation in the Information Society (Ulaanbaatar: Chuluunbat, 2004).
3. Barbara Nichols Randall, "Spelling Errors in the Database: Shadow or Substance?" Library Resources & Technical Services 43:3 (1999):161-169.
4. Randall, p. 168.
5. Terry Ballard, "Typographical Errors in Library Databases," http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete.html.
6. The ten most common words found (in order) are: And, The, Of, Includes, Bibliographical, References, States, United, New, A.
7. John W. Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1977).
8. Harry Ku, "Notes on the Use of Propagation of Error Formulas," in Statistical Concepts and Procedures, ed. Harry Ku (Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), 331-341.
9. George W. Snedecor and William G. Cochran, Statistical Methods, 8th ed. (Ames, Iowa: Blackwell, 1989).