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On Preferring Joy
- Library Trends
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 70, Number 4, Spring 2022
- pp. 635-659
- 10.1353/lib.2022.0023
- Article
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Abstract:
This paper examines how "Joy" is presented in several knowledge organization systems: subject heading lists, thesauri, and one ontology. Some use "Joy" as a preferred term, one combines it with another term in a compound preferred term, and others include "Joy" as a pointer to a different preferred term. The paper describes and compares various understandings of "Joy" as presented by these systems, summarizes the results, and makes some observations about aspects of these systems brought to the fore by the analysis.