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Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009)

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With the significant growth in the number of available electronic documents on the Internet, intranets, and digital libraries, the need for developing effective methods and systems to index and organize E-documents is felt more than ever. In this paper we introduce a new method for automatic text classification for categorizing E-documents by utilizing classification metadata of books, journals and other library holdings, that already exists in online catalogues of libraries. The method is based on identifying all references cited in a given document and, using the classification metadata of these references as catalogued in a physical library, devising an appropriate class for the document itself according to a standard library classification scheme with the help of a weighting mechanism. We have demonstrated the application of the proposed method and assessed its performance by developing a prototype classification system for classifying electronic syllabus documents archived in the Irish National Syllabus Repository according to the well-known Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) scheme.

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  1. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Arash Joorabchi & Abdulhussain E. Mahdi

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Joorabchi, A., Mahdi, A.E. (2009). Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries. In: Agosti, M., Borbinha, J., Kapidakis, S., Papatheodorou, C., Tsakonas, G. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_3

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