LCSH, FAST AND DELICIOUS: NORMALIZED VOCABULARIES AND NEW WAYS OF SUBJECT CATALOGING
Abstract
Controlled vocabularies have been the key pieces of bibliographic research, but some people believe that subject headings organized in horizontal strings are difficult to understand and use. This situation has favored the development of FAST, a deconstructed version of LCSH. At the same time, thanks to the folksonomies revealed by the social networks that are being developed on the Internet, people are organizing information according to their preferences and sharing their subject headings or tags with others. Delicious, a system of open social bookmarks, which allows bookmarks to be tagged and shared, is one of the tools which allow us to discover the behavior of users in their search for information. In this work we explore the structure of the headings chosen by users to tag the bookmarks they store in Delicious and the usefulness of this tool in the development of controlled headings that approach users´ preferences.
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