Glossary-Cleveland&Cleaveland

• ANSI stands for The American National Standards Institute
• Alphanumeric Display


  Headings in an index that are arranged in alphanumeric order
• Abstract


  A condensed representative surrogate knowledge record. A narrative description of a document, which may include pertinent data and critical context
• Acronym


  An abbreviation that is often formed from letters within the word or phrase being abbreviated
• Associative Retrieval Systems


  An information retrieval system in which the indexing is based on the frequency of the co-occurrence of terms as a method of grouping
• ASI stands for American Society of Indexers
• Automatic Indexing


  Using a computer to construct indexes
• Author Indexes


  Indexes arranged on the basis of the authors of the documents. Alphabetical lists of the authors of documents in a file
• Assignment Indexing


  Humans or computers assign index terms to represent the aboutness of a topic in a document. The terms may or may not actually appear in the text
• Added Entry


  In a catalog, an entry that is in addition to the main entry. A secondary entry that allows the user to find the information with a different approach
• Alternative Title


  The second part of a title that is joined by a connective word such as "or" (e.g., Raising the roof or How to Build Your Own House)
• Abstractor


  The person who creates an abstract. This may be the author of the original paper, a subject expert, or a professional abstractor
• Authority List


  A formal list of terms to be used in cataloging indexing. The use of terms not in the authorized list is prohibited
• Author Abstracts


  Abstracts that are written by the authors of the original papers
• Arrangement


  Consistent ordering of entries in an index, usually alphabetical
• Bibliographic Control


  The intellectual and public knowledge. More specifically, the process necessary to generate and control records of materials in libraries and other information systems for effective retrieval
• Alphabetic Subject Indexes


  Indexes arranged in alphabetical order, containing important words that denote subjects of interest
• Artificial Intelligence


  An area of study that attempts to program computers to emulate human reasoning
• Access Point


  An entry in an index in which a user's chosen word matches a word in the index, giving the user a starting point in the search
• Aboutness


  The aboutness of a document goes beyond explicit words in the text to a higher level of meaning
• Analytical Entry


  An entry for a part of an item for which a comprehensive entry has already been made
• Associate Relationship


  A relationship among terms that shows non-hierarchical relationships. Also called related terms
• Bibliographic Coupling


  The Citation of two or more documents in a third one
• Automatic Abstracting


  Using a computer to construct abstracts
• Author Affiliation


  The organization to which the author is attached
• Citation Order


  The order in which facets are arranged or cited in a classified sequence of terms, headings, or entries
• Clustering


  The automatic grouping of documents in an information retrieval file or the grouping of terms in thesaurus construction
• Bibliographic Control


  The intellectual process necessary to generate and maintain records of materials in libraries and other information systems for effective access
• Bound Terms


  Index terms that are joined together and treated as a single concept. For example, "artificial" and "intelligence" form the concept "artificial intelligence"
• Cataloging


  The preparation and maintenance of entries in a catalog
• Client


  In a network system (e.g., the Web), the receiving end of the information retrieval procedure
• Boolean Operators


  Connectives used to combine terms for searching in post-coordinate indexing e.g., AND, OR, and NOT
• Closed-end Index


  An index published only once and not continued over time
• Collective Title


  A title that Is an inclusive title for an item containing several works.
• Boolean Searching


  The procedure of identifying Information on a yes or no binary basis. If yes, user's reques term is same as an index term.
• Colon Classification


  An analytic synthetic classification system developed by S. R. Ranganathan in 1933, where colons separate facets
• Class


  A set whose members share an attribute, characteristic property, quality, or trait
• Book indexes


  • Indexes to the content of individual monograph publications. They usually appear at the end of the book, are alphabetical, and include subjects and name terms
• Chain Indexes


  • Alphabetically arranged indexes with a separate entry for each term or a link for all terms used in a classification or subject-heading scheme
• Citation Indexes


  • A citation index leads users to papers by citations rather than by content. The entries in a citation index are the names of authors of earlier works on a subject, guiding users to desired information