Enriching the library subject headings with folksonomy
ISSN: 0264-0473
Article publication date: 25 March 2020
Issue publication date: 13 May 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of enriching the library subject headings with folksonomy for enhancing the visibility and usability of the library subject headings.
Design/methodology/approach
The WorldCat-million data set and SocialBM0311 are preprocessing and over 210,000 library catalog records and 124,482 non-repeating tags were adopted to construct the matrix to observe the semantic relation between library subject headings and folksonomy. The proposed system is compared with the state-of-the-art methods and the parameters are fixed to obtain effective performance.
Findings
The results demonstrate that by integrating different semantic relations from library subject headings and folksonomy, the system’s performance can be improved compared to the benchmark methods. The evaluation results also show that the folksonomy can enrich library subject headings through the semantic relationship.
Originality/value
The proposed method simultaneous weighted matrix factorization can integrate the semantic relation from the library subject headings and folksonomy into one semantic space. The observation of the semantic relation between library subject headings and social tags from folksonomy can help enriching the library subject headings and improving the visibility of the library subject headings.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their precious work. This work is supported by the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Youth funded project (Grant No. 15YJC870002), the project of National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 17ZDA291), the project of China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201906195008), the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions PAPD.
Citation
Yu, W. and Chen, J. (2020), "Enriching the library subject headings with folksonomy", The Electronic Library, Vol. 38 No. 2, pp. 297-315. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-07-2019-0156
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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