Winner of the ASIS 1991 SIG "Book of the Year" award, the topics covered in this volume help to show the expansiveness of classification research, as well as its commonality.
Application issues are divided into two general categories-information retrieval and problem solving-with several chapters focusing on aspects of classifications research theory. Several specific topics include:
- Ad-Hoc, User-Determined Classified Displays Based on Faceted Indexing
- Retrieval Requirements of Faceted Thesauri in Interactive Information Systems
- Functional Representation of Technology
- Improving Intellectual Access to the U.S. Patent Classification
- Working Paper on the Relationship between Subject Indexing Principles and Online Searching Strategies
- A Classification Model for Reusable Software Components
- Basic Taxonomic Structures and Levels of Abstraction
- Imagery and Classification
- Ordered Trees: A Structure for the Mental Representation of Information
- Viewing the Dictionary as a Classification System
- Roget's International Thesaurus: Conceptual Issues and Potential Applications
- Generating Natural Language Definitions from Classification Hierarchies
- Report on Linking Subject Headings to LC Classification Numbers and Suggestions for
- Automating the Classification Schedules for the Explicit Purpose of Improving Subject
- Access in Online Public Access Catalogs
- An Approach to Object-Oriented Classifications
- Classification as an Approach to Requirements Analysis
- Plus many other topics of interest
©1991
172 pages, Softbound, ISBN:0-938734-53-9
$39.50 (non-members), $31.60 (ASIS members)
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