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Discovery of PSI

Sheena Bassett, Pira International

PSI Directory

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Using PSI

• Who uses it?

• Accessibility - how?

• Multi-linguality

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Classification

• PSI domain: resources, bodies and sites

• Nomenclature– 22 categories, 3 levels– Eurovoc, IPTC, NACE and HS 2000– 11 languages

• Dublin Core metadata

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Locating and Presenting PSI

• Search engine terms

• Classification terms

• Resources

• Via contacts

• Via websites

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Presentation of Information

• Must be fast

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Future Development

• Publisher partnerships

• Automatic document classification

• Crawler to check updates