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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Known as:
LCSH
, Library of Congres Subject Headings
, Library of Congress Subject Heading
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) comprise a thesaurus (in the information science sense, a controlled vocabulary) of subject headings…
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2018
2018
Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to Indigenous Peoples: Changing LCSH for Use in a Canadian Archival Context
C. Bone
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Brett Lougheed
2018
Corpus ID: 196151905
ABSTRACT The Association for Manitoba Archives has created a database where members can deposit archival descriptions to provide…
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2011
2011
Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings
V. Broughton
2011
Corpus ID: 62177913
1. History and principles of LCSH 2. Subject heading lists and the problems of language 3. Format and display of LCSH 4. The…
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
James D. Anderson
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Jose Perez-Carballo
2010
Corpus ID: 61356490
Development of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) began in 1898 and the first edition was published in parts between…
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
User tags versus expert-assigned subject terms: A comparison of LibraryThing tags and Library of Congress Subject Headings
Caimei Lu
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Jung-ran Park
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Xiaohua Hu
Journal of information science
2010
Corpus ID: 15957270
Social tagging, as a recent approach for creating metadata, has caught the attention of library and information science…
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Linking folksonomy to Library of Congress subject headings: an exploratory study
Kwan Yi
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L. M. Chan
J. Documentation
2009
Corpus ID: 31591172
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linking of a folksonomy (user vocabulary) and LCSH (controlled…
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2006
2006
A Fully Faceted Syntax for Library of Congress Subject Headings
James D. Anderson
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Melissa A. Hofmann
2006
Corpus ID: 62705335
ABSTRACT Moving to a fully faceted syntax would resolve three problems facing Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): (1…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Predicting Library of Congress classifications from Library of Congress subject headings
E. Frank
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G. Paynter
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
2004
Corpus ID: 2198152
This paper addresses the problem of automatically assigning a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) to a work given its set of…
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2000
2000
Teaching Library of Congress Subject Headings
Thomas W. Mann
2000
Corpus ID: 62597289
KEYWORDS An understanding of the workings of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is one of the most valuable conceptual…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
The LCSH Century: One Hundred Years with the Library of Congress Subject Headings System
Alva T. Stone
2000
Corpus ID: 57176781
Contents * BACKGROUND * The LCSH Century: A Brief History of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Introduction to the…
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1995
1995
Mapping "Laborline Thesaurus" Terms to Library of Congress Subject Headings: Implications for Vocabulary Switching
Margaret A. Chaplan
Library quarterly
1995
Corpus ID: 60289345
This study is an attempt to assess the potential for automatic vocabulary switching from a thesaurus to Library of Congress…
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