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dc.contributor.authorFrancu, Victoria
dc.contributor.editorCordeiro, Maria Inêsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-07T00:00:01Z
dc.date.available2010-06-18T23:39:51Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-07-07en_US
dc.identifier.citationDoes convenience trump accuracy? The avatars of the UDC in Romania 2007, Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, 29 (2007):263-272en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/106107
dc.description.abstractThis 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.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUDC Consortiumen_US
dc.subjectClassificationen_US
dc.subject.otherUniversal Decimal Classificationen_US
dc.subject.otherUDC useen_US
dc.subject.otherUDC teachingen_US
dc.subject.otherVerbal access to UDCen_US
dc.subject.otherUDC projecten_US
dc.titleDoes convenience trump accuracy? The avatars of the UDC in Romaniaen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-21T16:09:17Z
html.description.abstractThis 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.


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