Analysis and General Design of Indexing Systems - Natural ...
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Page2DocumentLAURIN- Deliverable 3.4Version1.21. Executive SummaryMain questions <strong>of</strong> the analysisThese following questions framed the task 3.4 "<strong>Analysis</strong> <strong>of</strong> indexing systems":• Which indexing <strong>and</strong> classification systems <strong>and</strong> methods are used by the LAURINpartners? Does their daily indexing work base on library st<strong>and</strong>ards?• Which existing text-type indexes <strong>and</strong> subject indexes should be integrated into theLAURIN system?• Are there existing thesauri systems or tools which can be re-used in the project? Howdo these systems h<strong>and</strong>le multilingual thesauri?• Are there feasible network solutions for a "distributed thesaurus"? How do otherthesauri solve this problem?Work done• The indexing systems <strong>of</strong> the participating libraries <strong>and</strong> archives were using aquestionnaire. The answers given by the librarians can be found in Annex 3. Someadditional inquiries by e-mail <strong>and</strong> contacts to other libraries (e.g. Literaturhaus Wien,Steiermärkische L<strong>and</strong>esbibliothek) completed these investigations.• A sample <strong>of</strong> ten thesaurus s<strong>of</strong>tware tools were tested. S<strong>of</strong>tware not available as trialversion was evaluated with the help <strong>of</strong> information given on the Internet or by contactingthe s<strong>of</strong>tware vendors (brochures). A complete list <strong>of</strong> the tested or examined thesaurustools is listed in Annex 2.• Thesauri available on the WWW have been evaluated especially in regard <strong>of</strong> their userinterface (display, capability to search <strong>and</strong> browse the terms) <strong>and</strong> the usability for theLAURIN-thesaurus (complete list see Annex 1). Additional other classification systemsused by journalists or newspapers have been evaluated.• A technical meeting with all other LAURIN developers was held in Rome in September inorder to harmonise the technical approach.• A paper on the functions <strong>of</strong> the LAURIN indexing system was published through the ftpsite<strong>of</strong> the project in order to give all partners the chance to give their feedback.Additional to this rather theoretical paper a mock up version <strong>of</strong> the future LAURINindexing module was created in order to have a practical example to discuss on.
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