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Information Storage and Retrieval

Notes Exhaustivity

SN The range of concept coverage of vocabulary terms in a controlled vocabulary. If the vocabulary
terms cover all of the concepts included in the content under consideration, then the controlled
vocabulary is exhaustive.
RT Specificity
Facet
SN A fundamental category by which an object or concept may be described. For example, a child’s
ball may be described using the facets of size, weight, shape, color, texture, material and price.
RT Facet Analysis
Faceted Classification
Facet Analysis
SN The process of analyzing content to determine appropriate facets and vocabulary
term relationships, using “one characteristic of division at a time, to produce homogeneous, mutually-
exclusive groups.”
RT Facet
Faceted Classification
Faceted Classification
SN A controlled vocabulary that divides vocabulary terms into facets.
BT Controlled Vocabulary
Free Listing
A method of vocabulary development in which users are asked to “name all the [x] you know.”
Free listing can identify core terms in a controlled vocabulary, as well as variant terms.
RT Card Sorting
User Warrant
Granularity
SN The level of specificity with which content is described. The more granular, the more specific.
RT Specificity
Hierarchy
SN A collection of vocabulary terms that show levels of superordination and subordination.
Hierarchies comprisebroader terms and narrower terms. Hierarchies may be testing using card
sorting.
RT Card Sorting
Polyhierarchy
Taxonomy

Hierarchical Relationship

SN The connection between broader and narrower terms in a taxonomy or thesaurus.
BT Term Relationship
RT Associative Relationship
Broader Term
Equivalence Relationship
Narrower Term

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