Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
I wonder if there is any chance that the BT, NT, and RT might be able to get
incorporated into this in the future (again, the WW II, WW 2, World War II,
World War 2 problem could get fixed this way)
No problem at all - if only someone can provide the data.
The
Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
This seems like big news. I just checked out Google Book Search and saw
their refine results at the bottom of the page.
For the end-user with no access to the Big Red Books, what's now
missing is only a browsable finding list of LCSH terms from where to
launch a
The best thing LC could do to encourage the continued relevancy of
LCSH and LCC---from a cost-benefit perspecive, the thing they could
do that woudl have the greatest effect with the least effort to
them---is to make the entire LCSH and LCC authority corpus available
for free in a structured
Thursday, September 4, 2005
Wide electronic distribution of the list/index of free floating LCSH
subdivisions with instructions would also be helpful IMHO. But subject
access--LCSH,
LCC, Dewey decimal, Bliss, Cutter, UDC, etc.--though worthy topics may all
be beyond the current scope of the
It seems like a very large file could be created from any very large
database that indexes the headings. I know that when I worked on the
MELVYL database the subject heading table in the database had many tens
of millions of unique entries.
Of course, WorldCat would yield the largest set, but
Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
to page 4, and all of a sudden, up at the top, it reads Books 31 - 38 of
38! What happened to the 215 books )
I suspect this is the result of their de-duping. They do this also
with web pages, but it's less obvious. With web pages, they retrieve
1000 pages
It is five minutes to midnight in England and it will no doubt be very early on
Wednesday before this is sent, but I want to mention something about faceted
classification following on from Karen Coyle's posting.
At the first public meeting of the Library of Congress's Working Group on the
Philip Davis wrote:
Irvin Flack refers to my use of 'metadata community.' I realise that
this is not a perfect description any more than 'traditional cataloguing
community.' It is a rough and ready label which I believe is recognised
as such by those with whom I have been corresponding on this
:
Headings and user friendly catalogues)
Philip Davis wrote:
Irvin Flack refers to my use of 'metadata community.' I realise that
this is not a perfect description any more than 'traditional cataloguing
community.' It is a rough and ready label which I believe is recognised
as such by those with whom I
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
... the general belief in the metadata
community is that it is preferable to use dumb identifiers to refer to
entities, rather than English language headings.
This belief becomes conviction when the language of your catalog is
not English and you are dreaming of
In my analysis, I do not agree that this is one of the main
contentions.
I do not personally see a significant number of people in the 'metadata
community' thinking that controlled vocabularly can or should be
abolished.
I agree with Jonathan's comments on the keywords/controlled vocabulary
Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Jones
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 5:41 PM
To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Headings and user friendly catalogues
If any evidence was wanted for the continuing value of controlled
.. it is preferable to use dumb identifiers to refer to
entities, rather than English language headings.
B. Eversong:
This belief becomes conviction when the language of your catalog is
not English and you are dreaming of library service without borders.
Hence the VIAF idea.
Class numbers
: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:21 AM
To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Headings and user friendly catalogues
This seems like big news. I just checked out Google Book Search and saw
their refine results at the bottom of the page.
For example, I did a search for knowledge
] Headings and user friendly catalogues
.. it is preferable to use dumb identifiers to refer to
entities, rather than English language headings.
B. Eversong:
This belief becomes conviction when the language of your catalog is
not English and you are dreaming of library service without borders
Philip Davis wrote:
I thank all who have so far responded to my message.
I am both delighted and astonished to read Jonathan Rochkind's statement that
'I do not personally see a significant number of people in the 'metadata
community' thinking that controlled vocabulary can or should be
Regarding Philip's original statement (and building on Karen's comments), I
think the real charm of a total lack of vocabulary control is harnessing the
swarm to do your indexing for you. Letting the public index resources is
really only feasible with a bare minimum of constraints on what they
One of the main bones of contention between the metadata community and the
traditional cataloguing community is whether authorized headings or merely
keywords should be used.
In my analysis, I do not agree that this is one of the main contentions.
I do not personally see a significant
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