Representational predictability
Representational predictability is a requirement for any adequately complete search (cf., e.g., Fugmann, 1985, pp. 121-123; Wellisch, 1989, p. 10; Bates, 1998, p.1,188; Blair, 1990, pp. 48-52, 101). In these papers the deficiencies of the keywords approach are discussed.

William Cooper (1969, p. 268-270) uses the term indexer-requester consistency: The terms chosen by an indexer should match the terms potentially used by the requester in order to make the document representations predictable by the users.





Literature:

Cooper, W. (1969). Is interindexer consistency a hobgoblin? American Documentation, 20(3), 268-278.

Fugmann, R. (1982). The complementarity of natural and indexing languages. International Classification, 9, 140–144.

Fugmann, R. (1994). Representational Predictability: Key to the Resolution of Several Pending Issues in Indexing and Information Supply. Advances in Knowledge Organization, 4, 414-422.

Mills, J. (2004). Faceted classification and logical division in information retrieval. Library Trends, 52(3), 541-570.
 



See also: Consistency in Knowledge Organization;

 

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 27-07-2006

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