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Design and development of information retrieval thesauri are the primary focus of this workshop. Formulation of terms, relationships and other navigation
mechanisms for ANSI/NISO standard thesauri are included. Specialized thesaurus management software packages are discussed and one or more packages will be demonstrated. Since the importance of text retrieval
software is increasing rapidly today, the place of thesauri with such software is considered. Thesauri may be used for both indexing and retrieval, and new technologies the balance of emphasis is changing to make
application to retrieval more important. The impact of this change on thesaurus design will be considered. This introductory course is designed for database developers and editors. Some knowledge of indexing is
useful, but no special background is required as long as you have basic information management training. |
