Faceted classification: proposal of fundamental categories to organize thesis and dissertations in a digital library
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2021.e79427Keywords:
Faceted Classification, Knowledge Organization, Information Retrieval, Meteorology, PMEST formulaAbstract
Objective: This work presents a proposal of fundamental categories, based on the work of Ranganathan and the Classification Research Group, to be used to construct a faceted navigation interface for a digital library of thesis and dissertations.
Methods: A research of applied nature, qualitative approach and exploratory type was carried out, which uses as methods the literature review, the documentary research and a domain analysis combining the bibliometric study and terminological study approaches.
Results: Based on the domain analysis, as well as on the consulted theoretical framework, the following fundamental categories were created: Thing, Kind, Process, Operation, Product, By-product, Space and Time.
Conclusions: The fundamental categories proposed in this work can contribute significantly to building a faceted search engine for retrieving theses and dissertations in a digital library. Thus, it is expected to eliminate the difficulties currently encountered by users when using a textual search field.
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