Three topics:
1. tagging subject headings
2. users making xrefs
3. linking LSCH's by "similarity."
Can't remember where I read it, but someone suggested letting
users tag subject headings. While this sounds like a good idea,
I've been trying to imagine what this would look like, and how
it might be used. And I can't. Can you?
I also wonder if user supplied _see_ and _see also_ cross references
would be a good idea. Now I get a glimmer of how this might be useful.
Perhaps this is really what was really being suggested in the tagging
subject
headings idea.
LibraryThing has volunteers doing "authority" work by "linking"
variant spellings of a single author name. While looking at this,
it struck me that perhaps volunteers could link subject headings in a
similar way.
Saying that LCSH 1 is very similar to LCSH 2. Perhaps
there could be a way to let people assign a "similarity number" to the link,
with 5 being very similar and 1 not so much. As you know from browsing
catalogues, similar or related subject headings show up because of links to
a particular title.
Or because your search keywords retrieved titles that have similar LCSH's.
This would be a way to link SH's without the title(s). Could you then make
LCSH "clouds?"
Anyway, these are all just musings, but I wonder what you think of these
ideas?
Brainstorming, you know...
Kevin
Received on Thu Mar 01 2007 - 17:54:01 EST