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     • A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a cataloger or indexer selects for assigning subject headings or descriptors to a work in a library catalog or bibliographic database.
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   What is a controlled vocabulary in a bibliographic database?

   • Many bibliographic databases have some form of "controlled vocabulary," also referred to as "standardized vocabulary." One term is selected as the 'preferred' word for describing and searching for words and concepts in citations. These words and concepts are referred to as 'subject terms' or 'descriptors.'

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   What is a controlled vocabulary?

   • Metadata creators assign terms from vocabularies to improve information retrieval. Common types of controlled vocabularies include subject headings lists, authority files, and thesauri. Controlled vocabularies can be arranged as alphabetical lists of terms or as taxonomies with a hierarchical structure of broader and narrower terms.

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   Which bibliographic indexes use controlled vocabulary?

   • Bibliographic indexes with controlled vocabulary usually have a print and/or online thesaurus or list which gives the preferred subject words. PubMed (MEDLINE), for instance, uses the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) "Colony Counts, Microbial" for all articles dealing with bacterial counts, fungal counts, spore counts, and so on.

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   What is the difference between taxonomies and controlled vocabularies?

   • Sometimes used interchangeably, taxonomies and controlled vocabularies are controlled lists of terms used to organize information. A controlled vocabulary is "an organized arrangement of words and phrases used to index content and/or to retrieve content through browsing and searching." (Harpring).

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   What are the different types of controlled vocabulary tools used in libraries?

   • For example, the term pool has to be qualified to refer to either swimming pool or the game pool to ensure that each preferred term or heading refers to only one concept. There are two main kinds of controlled vocabulary tools used in libraries: subject headings and thesauri.

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   Do controlled vocabularies improve the accuracy of free text searching?

   • Controlled vocabularies are often claimed to improve the accuracy of free text searching, such as to reduce irrelevant items in the retrieval list. These irrelevant items (false positives) are often caused by the inherent ambiguity of natural language. Take the English word football for example.

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3. guides.lib.utexas.edu › metadata-basics › controlledControlled Vocabularies - Metadata Basics - LibGuides at ...

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   Sep 10, 2024 · Controlled vocabularies are standardized and organized arrangements of words and phrases and provide a consistent way to describe data. Metadata creators assign terms from vocabularies to improve information retrieval. Common types of controlled vocabularies include subject headings lists, authority files, and thesauri.

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   May 1, 2020 · A controlled vocabulary is a list of authorized terms used to provide consistency and uniqueness among subjects in our descriptions of resources. The terms may be called subject headings, or descriptors, index terms, thesaurus terms, identifiers, or subjects.

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6. guides.lib.unc.edu › metadata › controlled-vocabControlled Vocabularies - Metadata for Data Management: A ...

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   Mar 28, 2024 · A controlled vocabulary provides a consistent way to describe data. Examples of controlled vocabularies include subject headings, thesauri, ontologies, and taxonomies. Using a controlled vocabulary will improve your data's findability and will make your data more shareable with researchers in the same discipline.

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7. pitt.libguides.com › controlledvocabulariesTaxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies - Metadata & Discovery ...

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   Sep 26, 2023 · A term lists, sometimes called a pick list, is the simplest type of controlled vocabularies. To create a term list, an agreed upon list of words and/or phrases is developed to identify a specific characteristic of a person, event, object, or other "thing".

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8. libguides.unbc.ca › controlledvocabularyIdentify Controlled Vocabulary for Each Concept - Knowledge ...

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   Oct 4, 2024 · To use controlled vocabulary, access a database and find the database’s thesaurus (also called its index, descriptors, subject terms, subject headings, or MeSH) and search within that thesaurus to find terms that represent your concept.

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   In library and information science, controlled vocabulary is a carefully selected list of words and phrases, which are used to tag units of information (document or work) so that they may be more easily retrieved by a search. [4][5] Controlled vocabularies solve the problems of homographs, synonyms and polysemes by a bijection between concepts a...

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    Jul 28, 2021 · Many bibliographic databases have some form of "controlled vocabulary," also referred to as "standardized vocabulary." One term is selected as the 'preferred' word for describing and searching for words and concepts in citations.