Development of an authoritative file of subject headings

At present, the formation of authoritative files system is an obligatory condition for organizing and managing electronic catalogues of large scientific libraries. SPSTL SB RAS is managing its own authoritative file of subject headings, the work on which began in 2008, and is actual until today.The paper describes the results of creating and managing an authoritative file of subject headings of SPSTL SB RAS in the period of 2011 – 2020: the history of the file creation is mentioned; the importance of linguistic support of the electronic catalogue for conducting information search is marked; the necessity for analyzing the current state of affairs and evaluating the authoritative file quality is pointed out.The analysis is based on the results of implementing the statement of work for creating the authoritative file; the program of step-by-step works is reproduced and the results of accomplishing each stage, the complexity of the tasks are evaluated.The article indicates the need to edit subject headings in accordance with the requirements of the method of objectification; to pair information search languages: library and bibliographic indices of classification and subject headings. It also indicates the problem of filling the authoritative file with new subject headings, reveals the necessity of checking the vocabulary by alphabetical index. The conclusion forms the notion about the current state of the authoritative file, the terms of work on implementing the statement of work. The main problem of completing the creation of an authoritative file of subject headings of SPSTL SB RAS is indicated; ways to solve this problem are suggested.

THE ACADEMIC FAIRNESS AND CREATIVE PERSEVERANCE OF HONORED PROFESSOR M. S. BOKARIUS IS ESSENTIAL EXAMPLE FOR TODAY

In this article there are results of retrospective analysis of scientific work of Honored professor M. S. Bokarius «Forensic medicine for doctors and lawyers» (1930). about academic fairness of author relative to making of more than 1200 references to origin sources in statement of own material. M. S. Bokarius used the alphabetical index at the end of the book, so the reader has opportunity to see the number of links to each author, which is from 1-2 to 38 times, and, accordingly, go to the page of text that is indicated next to each name. So, M. S. Bokarius referred not only to texts, drawings, tables, diagrams, photographs, but also to the statements of experts, which is currently very rare. This approach to writing a book is convenient for the reader and is essential example for today’s scientists, who sometimes ignore the principles of academic fairness and thus are breaking the current law of copyright protection. At the same time, it showed the creative perseverance of M. S. Bokarius on the publication in 20th years of XX century of new scientific works in forensic medicine and criminalistics, in particular, was founded in 1926 the international practical-scientific journal «Archive of Criminology and Forensic Medicine», which contained the original articles, forensic-medical casuistic, references, bibliography, critics, reviews of other journals and periodic publications, which was translating into English, Spain, German and Italy languages in references. In the article some statements of M. S. Bokarius present about the status and prospects of development of forensic medicine and criminalistics at that time, as well as hopes for the future of this new journal. It showed the memoirs of the delegates of the First AllUkrainian Forensic Medical Congress (1925). and quotations from the famous scientists of forensic medicine and criminalistics concerning the scientific achievements of Professor M. S. Bokarius, including the foundation of the journal «Archives of Criminology and Forensic Medicine» a big event at that time.