Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries
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2009Συγγραφέας
Joorabchi, Arash
Mahdi, Abdulhussain E.
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With the significant growth in the number of available electronic
documents on the Internet, intranets, and digital libraries, the need for developing
effective methods and systems to index and organize E-documents is felt
more than ever. In this paper we introduce a new method for automatic text
classification for categorizing E-documents by utilizing classification metadata
of books, journals and other library holdings, that already exists in online catalogues
of libraries. The method is based on identifying all references cited in a
given document and, using the classification metadata of these references as
catalogued in a physical library, devising an appropriate class for the document
itself according to a standard library classification scheme with the help of a
weighting mechanism. We have demonstrated the application of the proposed
method and assessed its performance by developing a prototype classification
system for classifying electronic syllabus documents archived in the Irish
National Syllabus Repository according to the well-known Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC) scheme.