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Belarusian linguistic terminology: some problems of functioning and fixationThe article considers functioning and fixation of the Belarusian linguistic terminology. Scientific papers, textbooks for schools and universities, terminological and generalpurpose dictionaries are under consideration.Brief excursus on the history of the Belarusian linguistics showed the diversity and randomness of the terms...
Upper Sorbian linguistic terminologyThis article deals with the development and use of linguistic terminology of a minority language in the context of bilingualism. Under this aspect, an overview is provided over the development and use of Upper Sorbian linguistic terminology past and present. Only recently, a Sorbian-language passage on the orthography of this tongue at the end of the 17th century...
Author-provided keywords as the basis of bibliographical description in the iSybislaw bibliographyA bibliographer primarily relies on the abstract and keywords provided by the author of the original article. However the author-provided abstract and keywords are rarely sufficient. The bibliographer’s task is to ascertain that they correspond to the content of the article itself, as well as to find...
The role of terms-indirect nominations in the thesaurus of information retrieval system of the Slavic linguisticsThe article examines some of the problems of modern information retrieval systems in the Slavic studies, in particular, one of the most representative – Bibliographic Database World Slavonic Linguistics, created in the Institute of Slavic Studies of PAS under the leadership of Dr. Z. E...
What is ”A Dictionary of oral Polish language of the north-eastern borderland” and what does it include?A regional variety of the Polish language of the north-eastern borderland in both oral and written forms has been functioning in Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia (former Polish Livonia) for several centuries. In 2000, The Team for Research on the Polish Language of the North-Eastern Borderland of the...
Bibliography in a digital information environmentThe dynamically changing area of the digital, including web, information interacts with the bibliographic universe, bringing new opportunities as well as new problems for both the bibliographers and the users. The article analyzes the following issues: 1) The aim of bibliography. Bibliographies serve utilitarian purposes, they allow, or at the very...
Collection as a kind of a set and an object of bibliographical descriptionThe paper aims to define the notion of the collection as a notion of a particular set of elements and to formulate the guidelines concerning the bibliographical description of papers dealing with sets of elements (e.g., lexical units, morphological units) of this kind.In the first part, definitions of the collection are analysed,...
Abstract and annotation as an element of bibliographic description in the iSybislaw databaseAbstract (sometimes called summary) of a scientific publication is a brief text that contains keywords. It is one of the elements of a bibliographic description in the bibliographic database iSybislaw – a modern information retrieval system. In the paper definitions of terms such as abstract, annotation and...
Multilingual information retrieval system of Slavic linguistics iSybislaw: challenges, achievements and opportunitiesIn multilingual information retrieval (IR) system iSybislaw we introduce a number of solutions enlarging its efficiency and effectiveness with the main tool, which presents the keyword language. In this paper the applicability and consistency of the accepted approach in the presentation...
The Upper Sorbian text corpus and further sources of information with regard to Upper Sorbian in the InternetIn the present era of globalisation and the omnipresence of the Internet, Sorbian linguistics faces new challenges along the lines “What is not in the Internet, does not exist”. The demand for digital sources of information with regard to Upper and Lower Sorbian and those accessible online...
Functional development of the bibliographic information system on Slavic linguistics – from SYBISLAW to iSybislawThe paper presents the process of functional development of the bibliographic information system on Slavic linguistics. The first database SYBISLAW (System Bibliografii Slawistycznej), established in 1993, was only available locally and used primarily to generate bibliographies in a traditional...
Ukrainian authors’ terminology in the iSybislaw system (verb)The problem of authors’ terminology is well-known to all iSybislaw developers. It inevitably forces them to find a compromise between their desire to represent the content of a document as fully as possible and the need to protect the system from being cluttered with non-standard terminology.Recent publications in the journal Ukrainska...
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