%0 Journal Article %1 wu_music_2018 %A Wu, Shuheng %A Fan, Yun %D 2018 %J Cataloging & Classification Quarterly %K inhaltserschliessung musik %N 4 %P 330--353 %R 10.1080/01639374.2017.1422582 %T Music literature indexing : comparing users' free-text queries and controlled vocabularies %U https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2017.1422582 %V 56 %X This study examined the characteristics of users' free-text queries submitted to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (a music literature database), and compared those queries with the controlled vocabularies used by RILM. Search-log analysis identified 11 categories of user-created search terms, and mapped each user-created search term to RILM's index terms, assessing whether it was a perfect match, a partial match, or no match. Only 30.04\% of the user-created search terms did not match RILM's index terms. Most of the partial-matching and non-matching user-created search terms were personal names, work titles, and topical terms. Suggestions are offered to enhance RILM's controlled vocabularies.

@article{wu_music_2018, abstract = {This study examined the characteristics of users' free-text queries submitted to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (a music literature database), and compared those queries with the controlled vocabularies used by RILM. Search-log analysis identified 11 categories of user-created search terms, and mapped each user-created search term to RILM's index terms, assessing whether it was a perfect match, a partial match, or no match. Only 30.04\% of the user-created search terms did not match RILM's index terms. Most of the partial-matching and non-matching user-created search terms were personal names, work titles, and topical terms. Suggestions are offered to enhance RILM's controlled vocabularies.}, added-at = {2018-11-04T17:02:36.000+0100}, author = {Wu, Shuheng and Fan, Yun}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28479e7d2b4c5a8663faf4d6939316564/lepsky}, doi = {10.1080/01639374.2017.1422582}, interhash = {ead0c8f4ed3280d70eb90f74020239ba}, intrahash = {8479e7d2b4c5a8663faf4d6939316564}, issn = {0163-9374}, journal = {Cataloging \& Classification Quarterly}, keywords = {inhaltserschliessung musik}, month = may, number = 4, pages = {330--353}, shorttitle = {Music {Literature} {Indexing}}, timestamp = {2018-11-04T17:02:36.000+0100}, title = {Music literature indexing : comparing users' free-text queries and controlled vocabularies}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2017.1422582}, urldate = {2018-04-21}, volume = 56, year = 2018 }