Knowledge Organisation and Retrieval Questions and Answers

Answer: D

A stopword list holds the common words, such as articles and prepositions, that are not used as index entries; the idea is used in keyword indexing, where the title words are taken as index terms and the stopwords are left out. It is not relevant to citation indexing, which is built on the references cited by documents, nor to chain indexing, which derives its entries from the chain of a class number. The answer is Keyword Indexing, option (D).

Answer: A

WADEX (Word and Author Index) is a version of KWIC in which the name of the author is added to the entries made from the keywords of titles, so the entries show a title keyword in context and also the author. KWOC, keyword out of context, shows the keyword as a heading outside the title, KWAC is keyword augmented in context, in which the title is enlarged with extra words, and KWIC itself has no author name. The answer is WADEX, option (A).

Answer: A

An indexing language is an artificial language, made for indexing and retrieval, and it uses a controlled vocabulary, so (A) is true. A controlled vocabulary shows relations between and among terms, through its structure of broader, narrower and related terms, so (R) is true. The key gives that both are true, option (A). The options that call either statement false, or only one true, are wrong.

Answer: A

Colon classification is not an enumerative scheme, since it does not list every compound subject in advance. It is an analytico-synthetic scheme, in which a class number is built by combining facets, so the assertion is false. The reason, that Colon classification has adopted the analytico-synthetic approach for constructing the class number, is true. So (A) is false and (R) is true, option (A). The options that call the assertion true, or both false, are wrong.

Answer: B

Cutter, printed here as Catter, is the author of the syndetic structure of the dictionary catalogue, in which see and see also references link related headings (iv). Kaiser's systematic indexing works on concrete and process (iii), J.R. Sharp is linked with selective listing (i) and D.J. Coates with the thing-part-material-action sequence (ii). So the code is (iv), (iii), (i), (ii), option (B). Option (A) gives selective listing to Kaiser, option (C) gives Syndetic cataloguing to Kaiser, and option (D) gives it to Coates, so they are wrong.