www.IndianJournals.com Members Copy, Not for Commercial Sale Downloaded From IP - 210.212.129.125 on dated 11-Dec-2010 Vol. 47, No.6, December 2010 599 SRELS Journal of Information Management Vol. 47, No. 6, December 2010, Paper BF. p599-620. CONTENT MANAGEMENT BY KEYWORDS: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY Bidyarthi Dutta 1 ; Krishnapada Majumder 2 and B. K. Sen 3 Various methods of content analysis are described here with special emphasis on keyword analysis. This study is based on an analytical study of 97 keywords extracted from titles and abstracts of 70 research articles, taking ten from each year starting from 2000 to 2006, in decreasing order of relevance, on the subject Fermi Liquid, which is a specific subject under the broad area of Condensed Matter Physics. The keywords beginning with the letters ‗A‘ to ‗F‘ only are considered for this study. The research articles have been collected from the bibliographic database of INSPEC. The keywords are indexed to critically examine its physical structure that is composed of three fundamental kernels, viz. keyphrase, modulator and qualifier. The keyphrase reflects the central concept, which is usually post-coordinated by the modulator to amend the central concept in accordance with the relevant context. The qualifier comes after the modulator to describe the particular state of the central concept and/or amended concept. The keywords are further classified in 36 classes on the basis of the 10 parameters, of which 4 parameters are intrinsic, i.e. Associativeness, chronological appearance, frequency of occurrence and category; and remaining 6 parameters are extrinsic, i.e. Clarity of meaning, type of meaning, scope of meaning, level of perception, mode of creation and area of occurrence. The number of classes under 4 intrinsic parameters is 16, while the same under 6 extrinsic parameters are 20. A new taxonomy of keywords has been proposed here that will enable to analyze research-trend of a subject and to identify potential research-areas under the scope of the same. KEYWORD/DESCRIPTORS: Content management, Content analysis, Keyword cluster analysis, Keyword taxonomy, Condensed matter physics, Fermi liquid, Structure of keyword, Intrinsic criteria of keyword, Extrinsic criteria of keyword 1 1 INTRODUCTION Content analysis is a potential research method, which is extensively used in library and information science with varying aims and objectives. This methodology was first applied in the study of mass communications in the 1950s, which was based on a basic communications model of sender-message-receiver [1]. According to Kippendorf [2], ‗Berelson's (1952) Content Analysis in Communications Research is considered the "first systematic presentation" of the conceptual and methodological elements of content analysis.‘ The researchers in almost all fields of Social Sciences, like anthropology, library and information science, management, political science, psychology, sociology et al use content analysis. This research method is applied in qualitative, quantitative, and sometimes mixed modes of research frameworks and employs a wide range of analytical techniques to generate findings and put them into context. The function 1 Librarian, St. Xavier‘s College, 30, Park Street, Kolkata 700016, INDIA. E-mail: bidyarthi.Bhaswati @gmail.com 2 Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032380, INDIA. E-mail: krishnapada_majumder@yahoo.com 3 Shivalik Apartments, Alaknanda, New Delhi 110019, INDIA. E-mail: bksen@airtel.in brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by E-LIS