Search results for: “subject indexing”
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Subject Indexing
Subject Cataloging, Subject Indexing in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Subject Cataloging, Subject Indexing in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Subject Cataloging, Subject Indexing may be applied to legal texts, including case law, […]
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Semantic Indexing and Law Dictionary
Semantic Indexing and Law Dictionary Overview For an explanation about Semantic Indexing and Law dictionary, read Semantic Indexing and Law. About legal dictonaries and definitions, see the law dictionary online. More on the subject: Semantic Web and Law, Semantic Indexing and legal, Semantic Indexing and Law Search and Semantic Indexing and Law news. Two Word…
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Subject Index to South Australian Legislation
Subject Index to South Australian Legislation The Subject Index to South Australian Legislation was produced and is maintained as part of a collaborative effort by the members of the Australian law librarians’ Group Incorporated (South Australia division) (AllG) and is available online at no cost to users.(1) It is very similar to the Victorian index.…
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History of Citation Indexing
History of Citation Indexing Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports. The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI®…
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Web of Knowledge Citation Indexing Service
Web of Knowledge Citation Indexing Service Electronic index resource details: Philadelphia, PA: Institute for Scientific Information, 1899-. Daily. Legal Resource Review According to “Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide” (see Further Reading), this citation index service are “multi-disciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject,…
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Legal Information Retrieval
Retrieval is based on automatic searching of documents for those embodying certain subject content. Such a system may involve automatic preprocessing of documents to form indexes or other structures to facilitate retrieval, but may not include any human intervention such as manual indexing of […]
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Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research
Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic, in “Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma”(42 Stan. L. Rev. 207, 214 (1989)), wrote that “Some scholars note that the inability of lawyers to follow the development of the law either nationally or…
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Document
Definition Document, strictly, in law, that which can serve as evidence or proof, and is written or printed, or has an inscription or any significance that can be “read”; thus a picture, authenticated photograph, seal or the like would furnish “documentary evidence.” More generally the word […]
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Thesaurus
A Thesaurus is an online database or a book of synonyms and near-synonyms in a written language, usually arranged conceptually, although dictionary arrangement is not uncommon. The first thesaurus of the English language, published in 1852, was compiled by Peter Mark Roget. For an online […]
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Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms
The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Details of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Author: Amy Hackney Blackwell Date of publishing: 2008 Publisher: Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410, United States Contents of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Abandon Abatable Nuisance Abate Abatement of a Legacy Abatement of Taxes Abdicate…
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Authors of Legal Dictionaries
Authors of Law Dictionaries Albericus de Rosate, 1290-1360: Albericus’s Dictionarium Area: (Roman/Canon Law, 1581) Albericus was “born in Rosciate, near Bergamo, around 1290. He studied in Padua under Oldradus da Ponte and Riccardus Malumbra. He studied also under Ranieri di Forlì and received advice and help from Bartolo da Sassoferrato. In the second decade of…
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Periodical
Periodical in Law Libraries The follow definition of Periodical is of use in law library research: A publication that is produced at regular intervals, or "periodically", and is intended to appear indefinitely. Generally, the frequency of publication is weekly, monthly, quarterly. […]
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Periodical
Periodical in Law Libraries The follow definition of Periodical is of use in law library research: A publication that is produced at regular intervals, or "periodically", and is intended to appear indefinitely. Generally, the frequency of publication is weekly, monthly, quarterly. […]