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Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Classification of content in oa repositories
...content stored in OA repositories and journals reflects the diversity of research disciplines. For example, information about the specific subject of a paper (e.g. computer science, humanities) can be used to narrow down search, to monitor trends and to estimate content…
Supporting Multiple Paths To Objects In Information Hierarchies: Faceted Classification, Faceted Search, And Symbolic Links
Faceted classification
We call sites like this, where the link labels residing at the same level of depth in the directed acyclic graph (DAG) correspond to a facet (Wynar, 2000) of information categorization, faceted. Facets are ‘clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive…
Ranganathan's facets
It was through the Colon Classification that Ranganathan introduced the concepts of facets and facet analysis. Facets were Ranganathan’s solution to the inherent problems with the Dewey Decimal and Library of Con- gress classification systems, namely, that index terms had to be…
Faceted search combines browsing and searching
Faceted search techniques integrate navigational (e.g., Yahoo!) and direct search (e.g., Google) to help users determine which portions of a classification contain the information desired. In other words, they combine browsing and search, leading to a mixed-initiative mode of…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Concrete operations and reversibility
When children enter Piaget’s stage of concrete operations at about age seven, many changes in their thought patterns are visible. At this age (usually from about seven through eleven or twelve) children possess the characteristic of reversibility, which allows them to reverse…