TY - GEN
T1 - Interdisciplinary Searching as a Use Case for Vocabulary Mapping
AU - Smith, Linda C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - There is increasing recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary research, but it is not well supported by available discipline-oriented information systems. The publication of ISO 25964-2: Information and documentation - thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies - Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies (ISO 2013) brought into focus the principles and practice of vocabulary mapping, a possible approach to better support interdisciplinary searching. This paper reviews the challenges of interdisciplinary searching, the specifics of vocabulary mapping, and approaches to evaluating the resulting mappings. More studies assessing the retrieval performance and usability of mappings are needed in order to demonstrate the ways in which mappings can add value in the search process, especially for interdisciplinary searching.
AB - There is increasing recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary research, but it is not well supported by available discipline-oriented information systems. The publication of ISO 25964-2: Information and documentation - thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies - Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies (ISO 2013) brought into focus the principles and practice of vocabulary mapping, a possible approach to better support interdisciplinary searching. This paper reviews the challenges of interdisciplinary searching, the specifics of vocabulary mapping, and approaches to evaluating the resulting mappings. More studies assessing the retrieval performance and usability of mappings are needed in order to demonstrate the ways in which mappings can add value in the search process, especially for interdisciplinary searching.
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U2 - 10.5771/9783956507762-428
DO - 10.5771/9783956507762-428
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134549122
T3 - Advances in Knowledge Organization
SP - 428
EP - 435
BT - Knowledge Organization at the Interface - Proceedings of the 16th International ISKO Conference, 2020
A2 - Lykke, Marianne
A2 - Svarre, Tanja
A2 - Skov, Mette
A2 - Martinez-Avila, Daniel
PB - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG
T2 - 16th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, ISKO 2020 - under the theme Knowledge organization
Y2 - 6 July 2020 through 8 July 2020
ER -