Documentary Languages Applied to Information Retrieval in Libraries
a review of EBSCO Discovery Service System
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https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2024.v18.e024009Keywords:
Information retrieval, Access to information, Indexing, Discovery services, Search enginesAbstract
This paper provides an overview of documentary languages applied to the information discovery service called EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), created and maintained by EBSCO (United States of America). The focus of the present paper is exclusively to evaluate EDS discovery system and how it adopts documentary languages. The goal of a discovery system is to provide a unified retrieval of descriptive bibliographic records from different sources of physical collections - print documents and physical media - and electronic collections - digital documents in the online format. Briefly, through a bibliographic survey in Information Science, it addresses the evolution of information search and retrieval methods: public access catalogs, metasearch systems and discovery services. It compares them and illustrates the advantages of incorporating subject indexing, controlled vocabularies, knowledge graphs, and concept maps in information retrieval tools. We conclude that using documentary languages in the EBSCO discovery service provides a greater capacity for information retrieval for end users, as well as new possibilities for obtaining documents and information in different knowledge domains.
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