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Music literature indexing : comparing users' free-text queries and controlled vocabularies

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Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 56 (4): 330--353 (May 2018)
DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2017.1422582

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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