‘Aboutness’ as a strategy for retrieval in the social sciences
D.F. Swift
(Information Research Group, Open University)
V. Winn
(Information Research Group, Open University)
D. Bramer
(Information Research Group, Open University)
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Abstract
Indexing systems have traditionally been geared to cater for search requests of the form ‘documents about…’. It is far from clear what is meant by the notion ‘about’, but the model that guides indexing is built around it. The procedure is:
Citation
Swift, D.F., Winn, V. and Bramer, D. (1978), "‘Aboutness’ as a strategy for retrieval in the social sciences", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 30 No. 5, pp. 182-187. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050630
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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