Universal Decimal Classification at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich - a Swiss perspective
| dc.contributor.author | Pika, Jiri | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Cordeiro, Maria Inês | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-07T00:00:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-18T23:19:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2008-07-07 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Universal Decimal Classification at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich - a Swiss perspective 2007, Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, 29 (2007):229-251 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105111 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper describes the use of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) in the library of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH-Zürich). The author explains characteristics of a subject authority index, the NEBIS Subject Index (NSI), through which the UDC is implemented for indexing and searching. The ETH library has been using the UDC for the past twenty-five years and most users hardly ever noticed the classification. A query in today's NEBIS-OPAC (formerly called ETHICS) is based on a verbal search with descriptors in German, English and French, and corresponding related search-terms. A single UDC number, linked to these descriptors, connects them to the related document-titles, regardless of the language. Thus the user actually works with the UDC, without realizing it. This paper describes the experience with this OPAC and the work behind it. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | UDC Consortium | en_US |
| dc.subject | Classification | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | ETH Zürich | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | subject index | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | subject authority file | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | authority control | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | library | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | OPAC | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | retrieval | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | multilingual search | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | UDC | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Universal Decimal Classification | en_US |
| dc.title | Universal Decimal Classification at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich - a Swiss perspective | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-21T10:09:41Z | |
| html.description.abstract | The paper describes the use of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) in the library of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH-Zürich). The author explains characteristics of a subject authority index, the NEBIS Subject Index (NSI), through which the UDC is implemented for indexing and searching. The ETH library has been using the UDC for the past twenty-five years and most users hardly ever noticed the classification. A query in today's NEBIS-OPAC (formerly called ETHICS) is based on a verbal search with descriptors in German, English and French, and corresponding related search-terms. A single UDC number, linked to these descriptors, connects them to the related document-titles, regardless of the language. Thus the user actually works with the UDC, without realizing it. This paper describes the experience with this OPAC and the work behind it. |
