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A Dictionary of Knowledge Organization MP. Satija Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar 2004 ISBN 81-7770-101-0
Keywords Classification, Classification schemes
Review DOI 10.1108/00220410510585250
This book is a compendium of terminology from the wider area of knowledge organization (KO), information retrieval and librarianship. It is a dictionary containing a selection of terms and expressions that one is likely to encounter while studying and teaching subject indexing and information retrieval. There are around 600 entries described, cross-referenced and arranged alphabetically (word by word). Entries encompassing terms, proper names, expressions and phrases contain the author's interpretation and comments with examples presented in free text (i.e. in a non-structured fashion with emphasis on the author's own viewpoint). The length of a description varies from one sentence to several pages. A few entries contain bibliographic references and these can be checked in the brief bibliography of textbooks and articles provided in the Introduction.
This dictionary is an interesting, if somewhat unusual, compilation of very general entries such as absolute, deduction, digit, understanding, universe, title, word, time (not all of which are described as KO specific) and very KO system specific entries such as docuterm, alien region and APUPA. Besides concepts, expressions and phrases, including those that are idiosyncratic and less...