Methodologies forclassifying repositories

摘要

Large, specialized repositories of content present unique problems for information discovery and retrieval: thesheer size of the repositories, the specialization (and corresponding demanding expectations) of the researcher-users, and the specialized language—including many acronyms and other abbreviations—found in anysufficiently advanced field of research. No two collections cover identical subject matter; what is the bestpractice for classifying such collections to optimize retrieval?.