MeSH versus BibSonomy: A Comparative Study of Index Terms and Social Tags in Nursing Literature

Authors

  • Arindam Sarkar
     Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences, Kolkata – 700150, West Bengal
  • Udayan Bhattacharya
     Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2021/v58i6/167304

Keywords:

BibSonomy, Controlled Vocabulary, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Social Tag, Spearman's Correlation.

Abstract

Present study attempts to examine similarities and differences between the expert generated subject headings and social tags. The study focuses on the comparing BibSonomy social tags and MeSH terms. For this purpose hundred articles in the domain of nursing were collected from BibSonomy as well as PuMed. The results show that 92.72% MeSH terms are not available in social tag vocabulary and almost 15% social tags are likely to be accepted by MeSH terms i.e., experts. Jaccard similarity coefficient shows that users and experts use variant terminology. Users use mostly title-based keywords while experts have used mostly topic-based terminologies. It is suggested that while social tags could improve document retrieval. They cannot substitute controlled vocabulary. OPACs must allow users to describe library documents through user-generated social tags along with expert (librarian) generated terms.

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Sarkar, A. and Bhattacharya, U. (2020). Social tags versus controlled vocabularies: A comparative metadata analysis. SRELS Journal of Information Management, 57(5): 259-264.

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Published

2022-01-21

How to Cite

Sarkar, A., & Bhattacharya, U. (2022). MeSH versus BibSonomy: A Comparative Study of Index Terms and Social Tags in Nursing Literature. Journal of Information and Knowledge, 58(6), 377–384. https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2021/v58i6/167304

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Volume 58, Issue 6, December 2021

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Received 2021-12-03
Accepted 2022-01-02
Published 2022-01-21

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