On the State of Genre/Form Vocabulary: A Quantitative Analysis of LCGFT Data in WorldCat

IF 0.6 4区管理学 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Library Resources & Technical Services Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI:10.5860/LRTS.65N2.52-64

Colin Bitter, Yuji Tosaka

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on a quantitative analysis of the LCGFT vocabulary within a large set of MARC bibliographic data retrieved from the OCLC WorldCat database. The study aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the outcomes of the LCGFT project, which was launched by the Library of Congress (LC) in 2007. Findings point to a moderate increase in LCGFT use over time; however, the vocabulary has not been applied to the fullest extent possible in WorldCat. Further, adoption has been inconsistent between the various LCGFT disciplines. These and other findings discussed here suggest that retrospective application of the vocabulary using automated means should be investigated by catalogers and other technical services librarians. Indeed, as the data used for the analysis show somewhat uneven application of LCGFT, and with nearly half a billion records in WorldCat, it remains a certainty that much of LCGFT’s full potentials for genre/form access and retrieval will remain untapped until innovative solutions are introduced to further increase overall vocabulary usage in bibliographic databases.

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论体裁/形式词汇的状态:对WorldCat中LCGFT数据的定量分析

本文的目的是对OCLC WorldCat数据库中检索到的大量MARC书目数据中的LCGFT词汇进行定量分析。该研究旨在对国会图书馆于2007年启动的LCGFT项目的结果进行详细分析。研究结果表明，随着时间的推移，LCGFT的使用略有增加；然而，这个词汇表并没有在WorldCat中得到尽可能充分的应用。此外，各种LCGFT学科之间的采用也不一致。这里讨论的这些和其他发现表明，编目员和其他技术服务馆员应该调查使用自动化手段的词汇的回顾性应用。事实上，由于用于分析的数据显示LCGFT的应用有些不均衡，而且WorldCat中有近5亿条记录，因此可以肯定的是，在引入创新解决方案以进一步提高书目数据库中的整体词汇使用率之前，LCGFT在类型/形式访问和检索方面的大部分潜力仍将未被开发。

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Library Resources & Technical Services INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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0.90

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) is a peer-reviewed journal that takes a critical approach to the questions and challenges facing librarians and libraries with regard to: Collections Scholarly communication Preservation (including digitization) Acquisitions (including licensing and economic aspects of acquisitions) Continuing resources Cataloging (including descriptive metadata, authority control, subject analysis, and classification)