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Vol.25 No.2

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The Impact of an Ontological Knowledge Representation on Information Retrieval: An Evaluation Study of OCLC's FRBR-Based FictionFinder

Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management / Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, (P)1013-0799; (E)2586-2073
2008, v.25 no.2, pp.183-198
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2008.25.2.183

(2008). The Impact of an Ontological Knowledge Representation on Information Retrieval: An Evaluation Study of OCLC's FRBR-Based FictionFinder. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 25(2), 183-198, https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2008.25.2.183

Abstract

With the purpose of enriching existing catalogues with FRBR, which is the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, in mind, this paper aims to evaluate the impact of bibliographic ontology on the overall system’s performance in the field of literature. In doing this, OCLC’s FictionFinder (http://fictionfinder.oclc.org) was selected and qualitatively evaluated. In this study 40 university seniors evaluated the following three aspects using the ‘transferring thoughts onto paper method’: 1) In which ways is this FRBR-aware bibliographical ontology helpful? 2) Are the things which are initially attempted to be helped being helped? 3) Would users seeking one work in particular also see all other related works? In conclusion, this study revealed that, as Cutter claimed in his 2nd rule of the library, collocations give added-value to the users and overall ontology provides better interface and usefulness. It also revealed that a system’s evaluation with qualitative methodology helped to build full pictures of the system and to grip the information needs of the users when the system is developed. Qualitative evaluations, therefore, could be used as indicators for the evaluation of any information retrieval systems.

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정보요구, 이용자 인터페이스, FRBR모델, 온톨로지, 질적평가, information needs, user interface, FRBR model, ontology, bibliographic ontology, qualitative evaluation. FictionFinder

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