The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition, 4th Edition

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5.5. Key Points in Chapter Five

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How are resource descriptions used in information retrieval?

Information retrieval is characterized as comparing a description of a user’s needs with descriptions of the resources that might satisfy them. Different property descriptions determine the comparison algorithms and the way in which relevance or similarity of descriptions is determined.

(See §5.2.1, “Naming {and, or, vs.} Describing”)

What are some of the different names given to the terms used in resource descriptions?

In different contexts, the terms in resource descriptions are called keywords, index terms, attributes, attribute values, elements, data elements, data values, or “the vocabulary,” labels, or tags.

(See §5.2.2, ““Description” as an Inclusive Term”)

What is a descriptor?

In the library science context of bibliographic description, a descriptor is one of the terms in a carefully designed language that can be assigned to a resource to designate its properties, characteristics, or meaning, or its relationships with other resources.

(See §5.2.2, ““Description” as an Inclusive Term”)

What is a bibliographic record?

A bibliographic description of an information resource is most commonly realized as a structured record in a standard format that describes ...