Organizing subject access to cultural heritage in Swedish online museums

• Published in: Journal of documentation Vol. 78; no. 7; pp. 211 - 247
• Main Authors: Golub, Koraljka, Ziolkowski, Pawel Michal, Zlodi, Goran
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 19.12.2022; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Archives & records; Bibliographic Databases; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap; Criteria; Cultural Background; Cultural heritage; Cultural resources; Digitizing; Documents; End users; Guidelines; Indexing; Information Needs; Information retrieval; Information Systems; International organizations; International standards; Libraries; Library and Information Science; Library and Information Sciences; Library catalogs; Metadata; Mosques & temples; Museums; Natural language; Online Searching; Photography; Printed Materials; Queries; Reference Materials; Searching; Semantics; Standardization; Subject heading schemes; Subject indexing; Vocabularies & taxonomies; Websites; Digital cultural heritage; Subject searching; Controlled vocabularies; Image retrieval; Online museums; Search interfaces; Information retrieval

PurposeThe study aims to paint a representative picture of the current state of search interfaces of Swedish online museum collections, focussing on search functionalities with particular reference to subject searching, as well as the use of controlled vocabularies, with the purpose of identifying w...