Measurement of subject scatter in the superintendent of documents classification.

Autor: Boyce, B R1 (AUTHOR), Rabalais, J (AUTHOR), Shiflett, L (AUTHOR), Wallace, D P (AUTHOR)
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Zdroj: Government Publications Review. Jul1990, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p333-340. 8p.
Abstrakt: This paper disproves the hypothesis that the amount of dispersion of document occurring when a collection is reclassified from the Superintendent of Documents Classification to the Library of Congress Classification is insignificant. Rank order statistics are studied and the author finds no relationship between the document orderings produced by the two schemes. The Library of Congress MARC records containing SuDocs numbers for governmental departments were sorted by two schemes and the resulting orders compared. A new measure is proposed and computed, as were existing measures of dispersion resulting from reclassification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts