Uncovering Hidden Clues about Geographic Visualization in LCC
Institution: | University of Arizona |
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Year: | 2006 |
Keywords: | Classification; Knowledge Organization |
Record ID: | 1785959 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106343 |
Geospatial information technologies revolutionize the way we have traditionally approached navigation and browsing in information systems. Colorful graphics, statistical summaries, geospatial relationships of underlying collections make them attractive for text retrieval systems. This paper examines the nature of georeferenced information in academic library catalogs organized according to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) with the goal of understanding their implications for geovisualization of library collections.