Subject Access Approaches used by Digital Collections and Information Directories

IFLA Section on Classification and Indexing

The Working Group on Subject Access works under the Section on Classification and Indexing. In order to monitor trends in the provision of subject access to electronic documents on the Web, the group is working on a database about subject access approaches used by digital collections and web-based information directories and portals. This form is set up to facilitate the investigation of known approaches to be input by the Working Group members.

SECTION I. DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE YOU FOUND

1. Name of the source: (e.g., ACM Digital Library)

2. URL of its main page: (e.g., www.acm.org/dl/)

3. Creator/Owner Name: (e.g., ACM (Association of Computing Machinery))

Country of producer: (e.g., Germany, or unknown, or international)

4. Language of the main page: monolingual bilingual multilingual

    Primary language:

    Secondary language:

    Other languages:

5. Date (yyyy-mm-dd) -- Created: -- Last updated:

SECTION II. STRUCTURAL APPROACH USED BY THE SOURCE

6. Component of the source: (check all that apply)

Search Engine; Sitemap; Site Index; Visual Map;
Other: --> please explain:

7. Known system used or revised:

           -- classification
or type:


       or -- subject headings/thesaurus:
or type:

9. Self-developed system/scheme:

Major scheme is visible on the website. (E.g., Yahoo's 14 categories in its subject directory.)
Major scheme is invisible on the website, but is functioning when search. (E.g., Northern Light's "Custom Search Folders", or other automatic clustering performances at a website.)

Title of the system:

   It has: a hierarchical structure ( 3 levels or more); several very broad groups (1-2 levels only).

  Its categories are arranged according to:

    a notation system for the structure; alphabet; logical order; local needs; no order.

10. Description of the structural approach:

SECTION III. SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Your name:

Date you visited the website you described (yyyy-mm-dd):

Today's date (yyyy-mm-dd):

Subject Access Approaches used by Digital Collections and Information Directories

Maintained by Marcia Lei Zeng (mzeng@kent.edu)Copyright 2001 IFLA CLASS. All rights reserved. Revised: October 28, 2001 December 21, 2001

Maintained by Marcia Lei Zeng (mzeng@kent.edu)
Copyright 2001 IFLA CLASS. All rights reserved.
Revised: October 28, 2001 December 21, 2001