Good Indexing Means Good Retrieval
by Marjorie M.K. Hlava
First published in Information Today
So far this column has covered design considerations for the building of a database. Editorial guidelines have […]
Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc.
Dr. Gerold Belonogov, Professor and Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia
Dr. Boris Kuznetsov, Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, […]
Articles
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GalleryClassifying the Un-classifiable
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While there may […]
Taxonomist Needed in D.C.
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Choosing Related Terms
Source: Dreamstime
Which quiche? You’ll have to read to the end to find out.
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ICD-10 and Taxonomies
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Knowledge Management Opportunities in Germany
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The Gift of SMEs
A typical thesaurus construction project for a scholarly publisher, policy clearinghouse, medical institution, or any other client with a technical vocabulary involves the input of a number of stakeholders.