What a Subject Search Interface Can Do

Notes:

This article is partly based on Schallier (2004).

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Percentages as of 4 September 2003.

Percentages as of 4 September 2003. There are obvious reasons for the low percentage of MeSH: biomedical publications are a very specific part of the collection; they are often articles; more frequently, they are available exclusively in electronic form and, as such, are not (yet) included in our library catalogue.

Beyens, Werner. (2002). E-services: een behoeftenonderzoek door middel van een webenquête bij academici aan de K.U.Leuven naar nieuwe elektronische diensten, Leuven: uned.

[http://www.bib.kuleuven.ac.be/bibc/leeszalen/vakbib/eserviceonderzoek/eserviceonderzoek.html]. Accessed 25/08/2004.

Class 2 in our authority file is based on several editions of UDC. In 2000 there was a total revision of class 2. However, we did not integrate this revision in our authority file, since the collection of our library of Theology is focused on Christian religions. UDC is also used for shelf numbers, and a revision of the authority file would therefore ask a complete reorganization of the library. For the revision of 2000, see Extensions and Corrections to the UDC [http://www.udcc.org/ec22_2000.htm]. Accessed 25/08/2004.

I will discuss this use of UDC for building virtual library shelves in another article.

[http://librisource.libis.be/LS/LS]. Accessed 25/08/2004.

More specifically, Dirk Kinnaes who developed the algorithm and Tom Vanmechelen who designed the interface.

UDC numbers like 563.4 Spongiaria, of which the broader term is 562 and not the expected 563, have already been signalled by Buxton (1990), Riesthuis (1998²) and Slavic (2003).

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