Works as Entities for Information Retrieval

In this book, librarians and scholars from around the world come together to address the issue of focusing on known-item identification and retrieval vs. collocation and retrieval of works in the construction of catalogs. Works as Entities for Information Retrieval examines domain-specific research about works and the problems inherent in their representation for information storage and retrieval, focusing on the importance of works in information-need and the importance of the work entity as key to the construction of bibliographic databases, Internet search engines, etc.