Aspects and Methods of Fictional Literature Knowledge Organization

Fiction retrieval has become one of the interesting special issues within information science during the past few years. This is a consequence of several facts. The most important of them is the need for fiction retrieval and secondly, the possibilities for creating retrieval systems for fiction have increased, due to the development of computerised environments for information retrieval. The multifaceted approach of analysing and describing texts, which is characteristic of fiction and its retrieval, has been made possible by this development. On the other hand, it has been discovered when computerising library environments that a great amount of the material within libraries has remained unindexed during the years of paper catalogues and most of that unindexed material has been and still is fictional.