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… (More)
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2017
2017
Mapping science using Library of Congress Subject Headings
Maps of scientific knowledge are generally created by analyzing scientific literature including journal articles, conference… (More)
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2016
2016
Library of congress subject heading (LCSH) browsing and natural language searching
Controlled topical vocabularies (CVs) are built into information systems to aid browsing and retrieval of items that may be… (More)
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2010
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2010
User tags versus expert-assigned subject terms: A comparison of LibraryThing tags and Library of Congress Subject Headings
Social tagging, as a recent approach for creating metadata, has caught the attention of library and information science… (More)
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2009
2009
Transcending Library Catalogs: A Comparative Study of Controlled Terms in Library of Congress Subject Headings and User-Generated Tags in LibraryThing for Transgender Books
Perhaps the greatest power of folksonomies, especially when set against controlled vocabularies like the Library of Congress… (More)
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2008
2008
LCSH is to Thesaurus as Doorbell is to Mammal: Visualizing Structural Problems in the Library of Congress Subject Headings
Building is a process The correct LCSH term is Buildings (plural) 
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2006
2006
A Fully Faceted Syntax for Library of Congress Subject Headings
Moving to a fully faceted syntax would resolve three problems facing Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): (1… (More)
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2006
2006
Encoding Library of Congress Subject Headings in SKOS: Authority control for the Semantic Web
This paper will explore using XSLT stylesheets to translate LCSH Authority Records from MARC/XML or MADS XML formats into RDF… (More)
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2006
2006
New Maps of the Library: Building Better Subject Discovery Tools Using Library of Congress Subject Headings
We describe tools in development at the University of Pennsylvania to generate and display interactive "subject maps" for… (More)
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2004
2004
Predicting Library of Congress classifications from Library of Congress subject headings
This paper addresses the problem of automatically assigning a Library of Congress Classification (LCC) to a work given its set of… (More)
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1996
1996
Library of Congress Subject Headings as Subject Terminology in a Virtual Library: The INFOMINE Example.
INFOMINE is an academic virtual library containing close to 5,000 records describing and providing hypertext links to… (More)
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