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.
%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.},
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author = {Wu, Shuheng and Fan, Yun},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28479e7d2b4c5a8663faf4d6939316564/lepsky},
doi = {10.1080/01639374.2017.1422582},
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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
}