Disability and Accessibility Language in Subject Headings and Social Tags

Authors

Mackenzie JohnsonFollow
Carlie Forsythe, University of Western OntarioFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2019

Issue

197

Journal

Catalogue & Index

First Page

16

Last Page

26

Abstract

Mackenzie Johnson and Carlie Forsythe’s article on disability and accessibility language in subject headings and social tagging stresses the importance of involving subject experts in the creation of subject headings, and of getting the headings right to allow effective information retrieval. The authors also assess the ‘third way’, of semi-structured, moderated social tagging systems, that lies between fully controlled vocabularies and free social tagging.

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Citation of this paper:

Johnson, M., & Forsythe, C. (2019). Disability and accessibility language in subject headings and social tags. Catalogue & Index, (197), 16–26.