Soler-Monreal, Concha and Gil-Leiva, Isidoro Evaluation of controlled vocabularies by inter-indexer consistency. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011, vol. 16, n. 4. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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English abstract
Introduction. Several controlled vocabularies are used for indexing three journal articles to check if with a list of descriptors are achieved better or equals of consistency rates that with a standard thesaurus and augmented thesaurus. Method. A set of terminology of Library and Information Science was used to build a list of descriptors with equivalence relations (USE and UF), a standard thesaurus and a augmented thesaurus (all the descriptors have scope notes). Subsequently, three articles were indexed by selected indexers who had varying degrees of experience – on the one hand Library and Information Science students and on the other, professionals from various documentation centres. Hooper’s measure to find the consistency between pairs of novice indexers and experts has been applied. Analysis. Data were tabulated and analysed systematically according pairs of novice indexers and experts has been applied. Results. The tool with the best results is the list of descriptors (39.5% consistency), followed by the augmented thesaurus (29.8%) and, with an almost identical value, the standard thesaurus (27.5%). Conclusion. It is concluded that the list of descriptors in both groups returns better indexing consistency but we need more research.
Spanish abstract
Se usan varios vocabularios controlados en la indización de tres artículos de revista para conocer qué lenguaje de indización consigue los mejores índices de consistencia entre indizadores. Para ello, con un conjunto de terminología de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, se construyó un listado de descriptores, con relaciones de equivalencia, un tesauro y un tesauro en el que todos sus descriptores cuentan con notas de aplicación. Posteriormente se indizaron tres artículos por los indizadores seleccionados que contaban con distinto grado de experiencia, por un lado estudiantes de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, y por otro, profesionales de diferentes centros de documentación. Una vez aplicada la fórmula para hallar los índices de consistencia entre los pares de indizadores noveles y expertos se concluye que en ambos grupos el listado de descriptores obtiene mejores resultados de consistencia en la indización, seguido por el tesauro aumentado y por el tesauro.
Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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Keywords: | controlled vocabularies evaluation, thesaurus evaluation, list of descriptors evaluation, indexing, indexing consistency, interindexer consistency |
Subjects: | I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation. |
Depositing user: | Isidoro Gil Leiva |
Date deposited: | 24 Apr 2018 09:22 |
Last modified: | 24 Apr 2018 09:22 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/32637 |
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