A. C. Foskett
Auteur de The Subject Approach to Information
Œuvres de A. C. Foskett
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In spite of its lack of currency, overall the work is approachable and comprehensive. It takes the time to define library terms that are helpful to new users (heuristic vs. iterative, for example). One of the most interesting analogies in the book is the early-noted theory of information retrieval as a form of communication. In this analogy, the indexing process is considered encoding and the searching is considered decoding . This is an excellent analogy for the relationship between indexer and searcher and is a good example of how Foskett attempts to make information retrieval accessible to beginners.… (plus d'informations)