Indicadores para evaluar el vocabulario y la estructura sistemática de un tesauro

Se proponen siete indicadores para evaluar la calidad del vocabulario y la estructura sistemática del tesauro, considerando que las especificaciones incluidas en las normas para su diseño y desarrollo, así como los principios de la teoría de la clasificación son los requisitos de calidad que deben alcanzar las características inherentes de los tesauros. Las características que no cumplen con dichos requisitos se consideran no conformidades. Los indicadores fueron probados en tres tesauros en español (DeCS, Spines y Tesauro de la Unesco). Los resultados fueron: a) Términos preferentes que representan más de un concepto (ideal 0): DeCS 10,8, Spines 7,3, Unesco 10,9. b) Media de palabras por término preferente (ideal menor o igual a 3): DeCS 2,3 más/menos 1,6, Spines 1,9 más/menos 0,9, Unesco 2,0 más/menos 1,1. c) Términos preferentes con formas gramaticales no aceptadas (ideal 0): DeCS 19,8, Spines 10,0, Unesco 15,8. d) Términos preferentes con formas de singular y plural no aceptadas (ideal 0): DeCS 4,7,Spines 2,2, Unesco 40,5. e) Términos preferentes que carecen de relación jerárquica (ideal 0): DeCS 0, Spines 1,4y Unesco 1,1. f) Términos preferentes con dos o más términos genéricos (ideal 0): DeCS 53,8, Spines 14,9, Unesco 0. g) Términos preferentes con un solo término específico (ideal 0): DeCS 13,5, Spines 3,5, Unesco 10,3. Se concluye que estos indicadores cumplen con los criterios de un buen indicador y pueden ser útiles para la evaluación de la calidad del tesauro durante el proceso de diseño y desarrollo.

Cenozoic plaktonic foraminfers from the Celebes and Sulu Seas

This paper presents the planktonic foraminifer biostratigraphy of the sites drilled during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 124 in the Celebes and Sulu Seas. It discusses preservation of foraminifers in pelagic sediments and in calcareous turbidites. In the Celebes Sea, pelagic carbonates are only found in the Eocene and Oligocene at Site 770. The faunas are poorly preserved due to severe dissolution and offer little biostratigraphic detail. In the Sulu Sea, pelagic carbonates are found in the upper Pliocene and Pleistocene at Sites 768 and 769 and throughout the recovered sequence at the shallower Site 771. The foraminifer faunas from these sediments allow for recognition of most standard zones. Variations in preservation of pelagic foraminifer faunas with time are due to changes in the depth of the lysocline. Shifts to improved preservation at Sites 768 and 769 are synchronous in the upper Pliocene/Pleistocene and may be related to global sea-level cycles. Planktonic foraminifers are also abundant in calcareous turbidites, which were deposited in both basins from the late Miocene onward. However, the turbidites are fine-grained, and biostratigraphic marker species are absent as a result of size-sorting during transport. In the Celebes Sea, shelf-derived material was a major component of early-late Miocene and middle Pliocene to early Pleistocene turbidites. Changes in the composition of the turbidites may correspond to global sea-level changes. In the Sulu Sea, a shift from shelf-derived material in Pliocene calcareous turbidites to a pelagic source in the Pleistocene may be related to subsidence of the Cagayan Ridge.

Geochemistry of Neogene volcanic ashs in ODP Leg 124 holes

Mineralogical and geochemical analyses were performed on 40 ash layers of Pleistocene to late Miocene age, recovered during Leg 124 in the Celebes and Sulu Seas (Sites 767, 768, and 769). They provide information on alteration processes related to burial diagenesis. The zonal distribution of secondary volcanic products emphasizes a major diagenetic change, characterized by the complete replacement of volcanic glass by an authigenic smectite-phillipsite assemblage, in tephra layers dated at 3.5-4 Ma. This diagenetic "event" occurs simultaneously in the two basins, and, on the basis of isotopic data, under low-temperature conditions. It is independent of distinct sedimentation rates and related to a relative quiescence of on-land volcanic activity. This period suggests a more uniform paleooceanographic situation having tectonic significance, and probably reflects a kinetic and environmental control of diagenetic reactions.