Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: Theoretical Background

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: An Overview

      • Rebecca Green

      Pages 3-18

   3. Bibliographic Relationships

      • Barbara B. Tillett

      Pages 19-35

   4. Thesaural Relationships

      • Stella G. Dextre Clarke

      Pages 37-52

   5. Standards for Relationships between Subject Indexing Terms

      • Jessica L. Milstead

      Pages 53-66

   6. Relationships in Multilingual Thesauri

      • Michèle Hudon

      Pages 67-80

   7. Relationships among Knowledge Structures: Vocabulary Integration within a Subject Domain

      • Olivier Bodenreider, Carol A. Bean

      Pages 81-98

   8. Relationships in Classificatory Structure and Meaning

      • Clare Beghtol

      Pages 99-113

   9. Relevance Relationships

      • Carol A. Bean, Rebecca Green

      Pages 115-132

3. Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Relationships in Library of Congress Subject Headings

      • Lynn M. El-Hoshy

      Pages 135-152

   3. The Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Controlling Relationships through Rules and Structure

      • Pat Molholt

      Pages 153-170

   4. Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

      • Stuart J. Nelson, W. Douglas Johnston, Betsy L. Humphreys

      Pages 171-184

   5. Lateral Relationships in Multicultural, Multilingual Databases in the Spiritual and Religious Domains: The OM Information Service

      • A. Neelameghan

      Pages 185-198

   6. Relationships in Ranganathan’s Colon Classification

      • M. P. Satija

      Pages 199-210

   7. Relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification System

      • Joan S. Mitchell

      Pages 211-226

4. Back Matter

   Pages 227-233

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Relationships abound in the library and information science (LIS) world. Those relationships may be social in nature, as, for instance, when we deal with human relationships among library personnel or relationships (i. e. , "public relations") between an information center and its clientele. The relationships may be educational, as, for example, when we examine the relationship between the curriculum of an accredited school and the needs of the work force it is preparing students to join. Or the relationships may be economic, as when we investigate the relationship between the cost of journals and the frequency with which they are cited. Many of the relationships of concern to us reflect phenomena entirely internal to the field: the relationship between manuscript collections, archives, and special collections; the relationship between end user search behavior and the effectiveness of searches; the relationship between access to and use of information resources; the relationship between recall and precision; the relationship between various bibliometric laws; etc. The list of such relationships could go on and on. The relationships addressed in this volume are restricted to those involved in the organization of recorded knowledge, which tend to have a conceptual or semantic basis, although statistical means are sometimes used in their discovery.

• DOM
• artificial intelligence
• classification
• intelligence
• knowledge representation
• organization
• proving

• School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  Carol A. Bean

• College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  Rebecca Green

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