Towards an IR Test Collection for the German National Library. Munkelt, J., Schaer, P., & Lepsky, K. LWDA-2018 ; Mannheim, 2018.
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Automatic content indexing is one of the innovations that are increasingly changing the way libraries work. In theory, it promises a cataloguing service that would hardly be possible with humans in terms of speed, quantity and maybe quality. The German National Library (DNB) has also recognised this potential and is increasingly relying on the automatic indexing of their catalogue content. The DNB took a major step in this direction in 2017, which was announced in two papers. The announcement was rather restrained, but the content of the papers is all the more explosive for the library community: Since September 2017, the DNB has discontinued the intellectual indexing of series B and H and has switched to an automatic process for these series. The subject indexing of online publications (series O) has been purely automatical since 2010; from Septem- ber 2017, monographs and periodicals published outside the publishing industry and university publications will no longer be indexed by people. This raises the question: What is the quality of the automatic indexing compared to the manual work or in other words to which degree can the automatic indexing replace people without a significant drop in regards to quality?
@article{munkelt_towards_2018,
  title = {Towards an {{IR}} Test Collection for the {{German National Library}}},
  copyright = {All rights reserved},
  abstract = {Automatic content indexing is one of the innovations that are increasingly changing the way libraries work. In theory, it promises a cataloguing service that would hardly be possible with humans in terms of speed, quantity and maybe quality. The German National Library (DNB) has also recognised this potential and is increasingly relying on the automatic indexing of their catalogue content. The DNB took a major step in this direction in 2017, which was announced in two papers. The announcement was rather restrained, but the content of the papers is all the more explosive for the library community: Since September 2017, the DNB has discontinued the intellectual indexing of series B and H and has switched to an automatic process for these series. The subject indexing of online publications (series O) has been purely automatical since 2010; from Septem- ber 2017, monographs and periodicals published outside the publishing industry and university publications will no longer be indexed by people. This raises the question: What is the quality of the automatic indexing compared to the manual work or in other words to which degree can the automatic indexing replace people without a significant drop in regards to quality?},
  journal = {LWDA-2018 ; Mannheim},
  author = {Munkelt, Johanna and Schaer, Philipp and Lepsky, Klaus},
  year = {2018},
  keywords = {retrievaltests}
}

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