Automated acquisition of the alphabetical subject index to LBC schedules

Abstract

The authors examine the possibility of using computerized workstations of classification developer for acquiring alphabetical subject index (ASI) to the Library-Bibliographical Classification (LBC) schedules. Through the computerized workstations, classification developers maintain the processes of the electronic standard of the Library-Bibliographical Classification schedules, including subject index development. In recent years, the problems of ASI development and its application for computerized information search have been insufficiently covered in the professional publications. The developers of the Library-Bibliographical Classification schedules take the chance to share their experience in this area. They analyze the problems of building summary ASI to the medium version of the schedules. The stages when the automated system failed to build the complex neststructure of the alphabetical subject index and repetitively had to be edited manually, are described. To illustrate the difficulties of building, the simple, complex and nest headings, as well as the fragments of index subject-nest headings are cited.