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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
ABSTRACT The Association for Manitoba Archives has created a database where members can deposit archival descriptions to provide… 
2011
2011
1. History and principles of LCSH 2. Subject heading lists and the problems of language 3. Format and display of LCSH 4. The… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
Development of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) began in 1898 and the first edition was published in parts between… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Social tagging, as a recent approach for creating metadata, has caught the attention of library and information science… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linking of a folksonomy (user vocabulary) and LCSH (controlled… 
2006
2006
ABSTRACT Moving to a fully faceted syntax would resolve three problems facing Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): (1… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
This paper addresses the problem of automatically assigning a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) to a work given its set of… 
2000
2000
KEYWORDS An understanding of the workings of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is one of the most valuable conceptual… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Contents * BACKGROUND * The LCSH Century: A Brief History of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Introduction to the… 
1995
1995
This study is an attempt to assess the potential for automatic vocabulary switching from a thesaurus to Library of Congress…