Documentary Scope

Contents

3.1. Authorship.
3.2. Titles.
3.3. Media.
3.4. Forms, Formats, Genres.
3.5. Periodicity.
3.6. Intended Audience or Level.
3.7. Methodological Approaches, Points of View, Biases, Kinds of Treatment.
3.8. Language.
3.9. Place of Creation, Manufacture, or Publication.
3.10. Time of Creation, Manufacture, or Publication.
3.11. Specific Documents.
3.12. Qualitative Criteria.
3.13. Features Versus Topics.
3.14. Our Examples.
3.14.1. A Book Index.
3.14.2. An Indexing and Abstracting Service.
3.14.3. A Full-Text Encyclopedia/Digital Library.

From James D. Anderson and José Pérez-Carballo “Information Retrieval Design”

● 1 documentary scope versus subject scope

● 2 importance of documentary scope descriptions for users

● 3 importance of documentary scope descriptions for IR database producers

● 4 documentary scope descriptions for collections of documents

● 5 documentary scope descriptions for single documents

● 6 documentary scope descriptions for collections of documents

● 7 non-topical features combined with topics in searches

● 8 importance of non-topical features for experts

● 9 role of non-topical features in relevance judgments

● 10 examples of non-topical features; role of user attributes in relevance judgments

● 11 non-topical features as searchable features

3.1. Authorship.

● 12

● 13 types of authors and creators as searchable features

● 14 corporate bodies as authors

● 15 types of corporate bodies as searchable features

● 16 messages without human authors; messages from nature

3.2. Titles.

● 17

3.3. Media.

● 18

● 20 types of audio media

● 21 world-wide web as channel for document transmission

3.4. Forms, Formats, Genres.

● 22

● 23 varieties of texts

● 24 codes for composition of texts

● 25 formats, genres and styles in music

● 26 formats and genres for language texts

● 27 terminology for formats, genres and media

● 28 codes for representation of machine-readable texts

● 29 codes for representation of word-processing texts

● 31 physical formats versus presentation formats and media formats

● 32 multimedia versus multiformats

3.5. Periodicity.

● 33

● 34 revised monographs versus serials

● 35 monographic series

3.6. Intended Audience or Level.

● 37

3.7. Methodological Approaches, Points of View, Biases, Kinds of Treatment.

● 38

● 39 methodological approaches in literary study

● 40 biases as searchable features; as non-topical features

3.8. Language.

● 41

3.9. Place of Creation, Manufacture, or Publication.

● 42

3.10. Time of Creation, Manufacture, or Publication.

● 43

3.11. Specific Documents.

● 44

3.12. Qualitative Criteria.

● 45

● 46 objective qualitative criteria in documentary scope

● 47 biases and points of view in documentary scope

3.13. Features Versus Topics.

● 48

● 49 clear distinction between non-topical features versus topics

● 50

3.14. Our Examples.

3.14.1. A Book Index.

● 51

3.14.2. An Indexing and Abstracting Service.

● 52

● 53 media in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 54 formats in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 55 periodicity in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 56 audience and levels of treatment in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 57 language in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 58 place of publication in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 59 time of publication in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 60 specific documents in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 61 qualitative criteria in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 62 searchable features in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 63 authorship in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 64 document titles in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 65 methodological approaches and points of view in documentary scope for indexing and abstracting services

● 66 terminology for non-topical features

3.14.3. A Full-Text Encyclopedia/Digital Library.