Does convenience trump accuracy? The avatars of the UDC in Romania
dc.contributor.author | Francu, Victoria | |
dc.contributor.editor | Cordeiro, Maria Inês | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-07T00:00:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-18T23:39:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2008-07-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Does convenience trump accuracy? The avatars of the UDC in Romania 2007, Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, 29 (2007):263-272 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106107 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper concentrates on some major issues regarding the potential of UDC and the current controversy about its use UDC in Romania: i) the importance of hierarchical structures in controlled vocabularies with a direct impact on improved information retrieval given by the browsing function which enables visualizing the hierarchies in subject areas rather than just locating a particular topic; ii) the lack of popularity of the UDC as an indexing and information retrieval language among its users be they librarians or end users of library OPACs; and iii) the situation of UDC teachers and teaching in Romanian universities. | |
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 | Universal Decimal Classification | en_US |
dc.subject.other | UDC use | en_US |
dc.subject.other | UDC teaching | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Verbal access to UDC | en_US |
dc.subject.other | UDC project | en_US |
dc.title | Does convenience trump accuracy? The avatars of the UDC in Romania | en_US |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-21T16:09:17Z | |
html.description.abstract | This paper concentrates on some major issues regarding the potential of UDC and the current controversy about its use UDC in Romania: i) the importance of hierarchical structures in controlled vocabularies with a direct impact on improved information retrieval given by the browsing function which enables visualizing the hierarchies in subject areas rather than just locating a particular topic; ii) the lack of popularity of the UDC as an indexing and information retrieval language among its users be they librarians or end users of library OPACs; and iii) the situation of UDC teachers and teaching in Romanian universities. |