... Bibliographic systems Indexes Retrieval languages Designing, building, and maintaining an indexing language, metadata schema, or ontology is an act of creation. In both the act and the artifact we can examine the form and content through a number of different lenses. We find an incipient discourse...

.... Paul Ojennus can be contacted at: pojennus@uw.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Evaluation Analysis Bibliographic systems Indexes Retrieval languages Philosophy In part 1, sections 1-2 (appearing earlier in this journal) we reviewed the background of IOFs, identified...

...B.C. Vickery Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize the varied structural characteristics which may be present in retrieval languages. Design/methodology/approach The languages serve varied purposes in information systems, and a number of these are identified. The relations between...