Managing an uncontrolled vocabulary ex post facto

Maureen Lefever, Barbara Freedman and Louise Schultz

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1972, vol. 23, issue 6, 339-342

Abstract: Initiated as an experiment, supported by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the operational retrospective retrieval service offered by BIOSIS, now in its eighth year, exploits a file created essentially without vocabulary control. The file comprises some 40 million index access points to 1.87 million references in research biology announced in Biological Abstracts and BioResearch Index since September 1959. A pragmatic program of file building criteria has been pursued, originally with modest support from the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation, which has provided improved retrieval and an annual summary of the vocabulary of the literature available to anyone interested (1).

Date: 1972
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