Introduction

Session 1: Retrieval in a Multilingual Environment

MACS: subject access across languages and networks

Elisabeth Freyre and Max Naudi

Information languages and multilingual access

Gerhard Riesthuis

Session 2: Retrieval across Multiple Vocabularies (1)

Integrating LCSH and McSH in information systems

Tony Olson

Renardus: cross-browsing European subject gateways via a common classification system (DDC)

Traugott Koch, Heike Neuroth and Michael Day

Session 3: Retrieval across Multiple Vocabularies (2)

Putting the world back together: mapping multiple vocabularies into a single thesaurus

Patricia S. Kuhr

Access methods in a database of e-journals

Friedrich Geisselmann

Mundane standards, everyday technologies, equitable access

Hope A. Olson and Dennis B. Ward

Session 4: Cross-sectoral Retrieval

HILT: subject retrieval in a distributed environment

Dennis Nicholson and Susannah Wake

The Colorado Digitization Project: subject access issues

William A. Garrison

The Iter bibliography: international standard subject access to medieval and renaissance materials (400-1700)

Clare Beghtol

Session 5: Domain Specific Retrieval

Subject access to web resources in education

Michèle Hudon

A multi-layered, multi-dimensional representation of digital educational resources

Jian Qin and Jianping Chen

General library classification in learning material metadata: the application in IMS/LOM and DCMES metadata schemas

Aida Slavic

Session 6: Tool development for Retrieval

Personal construct theory as a research tool in library and information science. Case study: development of a user-driven classification of photographs

Mary A. Burke

Improving subject retrieval with frame representations

Carol A. Bean and Rebecca Green

Features of an integrated thesaurus management and search system for the networked environment

Marcia Lei Zeng and Yu Chen

Session 7: Transformation of Traditional Tools for the Web Environment (1)

From library authority control to network authoritative metadata sources

Maria Inês Cordeiro

FAST: faceted application of subject terminology

Edward T. O'Neill, Eric Childress, Rebecca Dean, Kene Kammerer, Diane Vizine-Goetz, Lois Mai Chan, Lynn El-Hoshy

Faceted indexing application for organizing and accessing Internet resources

Francis J. Devadason

Session 8: Transformation of Traditional Tools for the Web Enviroment (2)

The Library of Congress Classification as a knowledge base for automatic subject categorization

Carol Jean Godby and Jay Stuler

The UDC and the World Wide Web

Ia C. McIlwaine

Towards DDC-classified displays of NetFirst search results

Diane Vizine-Goetz and Roger Thompson

List of participants

Index