Clumps (Information retrieval)
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Clumps (Information retrieval)
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001005707
- info:lc/authorities/sh2001005707
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2001005707#concept
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Broader Terms
Sources
- found: Work cat: New review of information and library research, vol. 5 (1999): p. 79-97 (Title cited: Expectations, communications and resistance in the management of eLib clumps projects) p. 99-105 (Title cited: Guiding the user to relevant information within a clump, with particular focus on an early version of the CAIRNS dynamic clumping service)
- found: OCLC, May 2, 2001 (Title usage: The use of the theory of clumps for information retrieval)
- found: ALA gloss. of lib. and info. sci., 1983 (clump - in an associative retrieval system, a grouping of terms based on the frequency with which they occur together in the same works)
- found: Ariadne WWW, Issue 18 (Dec. 1998): main articles (Hybrids and clumps - a clump is an aggregation of catalogues (or other databases). The point of a clump is to enable large-scale resource discovery - so that users can search for resources they want across a number of different catalogues. Clumps fall into two categories: physical and virtual clumps. The first of these ... is a union catalogue which brings together the data from a number of different sources and holds it in one place. Virtual clumps are not centrally managed; they are distributed databases which can be aggregated for the purposes of a search)
Change Notes
- 2001-05-04: new
- 2001-06-07: revised
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