Powering Search: The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Shiri, Ali

• This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of thesauri in search user interfaces across a range of information search and retrieval systems—from bibliographic and full-text databases to digital libraries, portals, open archives, and content management systems. It explores various projects, practices, perspectives, and services from disparate communities, and—drawing on an array of successful applications, usability studies, current research, and firsthand experience—offers practical guidance on using thesauri to build better search engines.

• Date created

  2012

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Thesauri
  • Interactive information retrieval
  • Search user interfaces
  • Thesaurus-enhanced user interfaces
  • Knowledge organization systems
  • Digital libraries

• Type of Item

  Book

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3J679046

• License

  CC0 1.0 Universal