Dargah libraries in India: a comparative study |
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| Authors: | Mohamed Taher Amin Ahmed Khan Muhammed Burhanuddin |
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| Institution: | 1. American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad 500 007, India.;2. (CORD), NIRD, Hyderabad-30, India.;3. Hyderabad University Library, Hyderabad-134, India. |
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| Abstract: | This paper relates to the difficulty in retrieving precise information from big repositories of magazine articles in full text, and proposes an Extended Markup Language (XML) vocabulary for improving retrieval rates. The hypothesis tested was as follows: Magazine articles marked up with an XML vocabulary, indexed only by selected parts, give more precise search results than the same search using full text index.The study was exploratory with the following characteristics: 29 magazine articles were tested for results, 8 scholars were interviewed for defining 23 search strategies and evaluating results. The data showed that precision improved from 40.72% with full text search to 62.84% using XML markup and searching only in specific labels.Revision of the vocabulary and more testing has to be done by the library and information science community in order to obtain a valid vocabulary and provide more research results. Cultural characteristics and politics of librarians and information managers’ community are as important as technical issues in order to consider any technical proposal to be implemented successfully to achieve interoperability. |
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