Towards the novel classification schemes in digital libraries

  • Authors:
  • Branko Horvat;Milan Ojsteršek

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova ulica, Maribor, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • DIWED'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Distance Learning and Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Nowadays, in almost all libraries, librarians still maintain a rather obsolete practice of setting their books and other material according to a variation of the well-known UDC arrangement. However, the habits of today's users force libraries to provide a different approach for accessing library material, it should be in a digital form and easy to find. On the one hand, the library items should have richer description than mere UDC, i.e. using the automatic text indexing as well as considering the intentional point of view. On the other hand, users' needs should be specified to facilitate obtaining and delivery of the relevant items to the right users. Moreover, otherwise valuable implicit knowledge could be partially captured in a step-by-step form via forum discussions.