Paper details
Making Search More Relevant
Session coordinator: Martin Lhoták, Academy of Sciences Library, Czech Republic
Time and venue: May 26, 1:30 PM - 4:35 PM, Vencovsky Aula
Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System and its Potential in the Area of Indexing and Searching Web Documents
- Author
- Kristýna Kožuchová, National Technical Library, Czech Republic
- Co-authors
- Ctibor Škuta, National Technical Library, Czech Republic
- Documents to download
- Abstract
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Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System (PSH) is an example of knowledge organisation system (KOS) which is intended for indexing and searching documents by subject. Traditionally, the subject indexing has been the responsibility of professionals – librarians. Nowadays, this type of intellectual process is also made available to general public.
In 2009 PSH was published in Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) format under Creative Commons (CC) licencing terms. SKOS is designed to represent traditional knowledge organisation systems. It provides means for expressing standard relationships that can be found in most thesauri or subject heading systems. SKOS is defined using RDF Schema and expressed in RDF data model.
There is a possibility to display tags from PSH in Dublin Core and CommonTag formats in PSH section on the National technical library´s websites. Metadata tags can be embedded in (X)HTML document to achieve its semantic description. If available, there are also links reffering to similar concepts found in Library of Congress Subject Headings or on DBpedia.
Currently PSH is not only a tool for bibliographic records selecting but its potential is also developed in the area of indexing and searching web documents.
- Author's professional CV
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Kristýna Kožuchová finished Information Studies and Librarianship at Charles University in Prague with Bachelor dergree in June 2009 and currently she continues in the Master programme at the same field. Simultaneously with studying she has been working at the Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System department at the National Technical Library for more then one year. She ensures control, maintainance and publicity of Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System and prepares specialized seminars.
