Document representation
Documents may be represented by full text representations, in bibliographical records, in library catalogs, etc., just as they are represented in the literature (as revealed, for example, by bibliographic references). Sets of document representations may be organized in databases.
Important for the retrievability of documents are the quality and nature of the representation as well as the system of subject access points made available for the searcher.
Literature:
Barry, C. L. (1998). Document representations and clues to document relevance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(14), 1293-1303.
Dolin, R. H.; Alschuler, L.; Boyer, S. & Beebe, C. (2000). An update on HL7's
XML-based document representation standards. Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association, 2000,S , P190-194
Lalmas, M. (2000). Combining document representations. International Journal
of Cooperative Information Systems, 9(4), 427-447.
Croft, W. B. (1981). Document representation in probabilistic models of
information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science, 32(6), 451-457.
See also: Representation (Epistemological lifeboat)
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 19-10-2006