The relationship between author names and author entries in a large on‐line union catalog as retrieved using truncated keys

Joseph D. Smith and James E. Rush

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1977, vol. 28, issue 2, 115-120

Abstract: A study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of certain truncated‐key structures in retrieving sets of bibliographic records that represent works authored by a single individual. The results show that a key of the form 4,3,1 retrieved one personal author name 98% of the time. A key of the same form retrieved one corporate author name 82% of the time. A stop‐list is necessary to eliminate certain troublesome words in corporate names.

Date: 1977
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