Indexing vocabularies in Glass Technology and need for an Information Retreival Thesaurus - a pilot study

Abstract

The indexing languages covering the subject field of glass technology in depth have been briefly surveyed to study their suitability for deep subject indexing of micro documents in the field. The need for an information retrieval thesaurus covering the subject has been stressed. Development of a thesaurus on glass fibres and glass fibre reinforced plastics, has been attempted, and a part of the thesaurus has been incorporated in the paper with a descriptive introduction about the principles and design methodology adopted.