Download or read book Works as Entities for Information Retrieval written by Richard P. Smiraglia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, librarians and scholars from around the world come together to address the issue of focusing on known-item identification and retrieval vs. collocation and retrieval of works in the construction of catalogs. Works as Entities for Information Retrieval examines domain-specific research about works and the problems inherent in their representation for information storage and retrieval, focusing on the importance of works in information-need and the importance of the work entity as key to the construction of bibliographic databases, Internet search engines, etc.