Taxonomy applications in foreign national library sites: an analytical study

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Department of Information Sciences, College of Arts. Fayoum University

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The study aimed to study the taxonomic structure in the websites of the foreign national libraries that were the study’s sample. The study also aimed to address the characteristics of taxonomy construction in the websites of foreign national libraries, in addition to identifying the types of taxonomy used in those sites. The study relied on the descriptive and analytical approach; This is to address the classification structure in the websites of foreign national libraries, and represents the study population in the websites of foreign national libraries. The study came out with a set of results, the most important of which is that there is a disparity between the websites of the foreign national libraries in the study sample in terms of the number of subject categories at each level of branching, and that the taxonomy is threefold. The most widely used level on foreign national library websites came in second place with a rate of 40%, and the two-level taxonomy came in second place with a rate of 20%, while the five-level taxonomy was the least used with a rate of only 10%, and the most used type of taxonomy on the websites of foreign national libraries in the study sample was the hierarchical taxonomy; This type is used at a rate of 70%, .

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