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Knowledge organization affordances in a faceted online public access catalog (OPAC)

. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 0 (0): 1--26 (December 2021)Publisher: Routledge \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.2015734.
DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2021.2015734

Abstract

Faceted navigation is already a standard feature of contemporary Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs). The article aims to indicate practices in this area and new affordances that faceted navigation provides. The content of 55 Polish university library websites and their OPACs using faceted navigation was analyzed. After selecting the subject facets, the source of the terms constituting their content was analyzed using the MARC 21 bibliographic record format structure. During the transfer of traditional KOS affordances to those of faceted navigation, the former knowledge organization (KO) structures were deconstructed, which may require the creation of a new kind of KOS.

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