Constructing a true LCSH tree of a science and engineering collection

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 63; no. 12; pp. 2405 - 2418
• Main Authors: Julien, Charles-Antoine, Tirilly, Pierre, Leide, John E., Guastavino, Catherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2012; Wiley; Wiley Periodicals Inc; Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Subjects: Bibliographic data bases; Bibliometrics. Scientometrics; Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation; Browsing; Collection; Computer Science; Document and Text Processing; Electric power distribution; Exact sciences and technology; Hierarchies; Human-Computer Interaction; Humanities and Social Sciences; Indexing; Information and communication sciences; Information retrieval; Information science. Documentation; Interfaces; knowledge organization systems; Libraries; Library and information science. General aspects; Library and information sciences; Library collections; Library of Congress Subject Headings; Sciences and techniques of general use; Studies; Subject fields; Tree structures; Subject hierarchy simplification; Information visualization; Information organization; Subject hierarchy; Subject hierarchy complexity

The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is a subject structure used to index large library collections throughout the world. Browsing a collection through LCSH is difficult using current online tools in part because users cannot explore the structure using their existing experience navigatin...