[I really wish this thread hadn't started till next week. as I'm working on
an article on this, er, subject :-) Just a couple quick points for now]
1: iBiblio would be glad to host future authorities (hey, we're already in
two of the 856 examples in Concise Authorities.
2: There's a lot of maintenance work that needs to be done to LCSH before
it can be readily used as a thesaurus. The most pressing problem are the
over thirty thousand headings that exist as top level concepts.
Some headings can be given parents automatically; for example, in a
thesaurus, "Cosmology, Norse" should be NT "Cosmology" (and "Norse
Cosmology", darn it) .
[As a side note: is it just me, or is the 952 for "Cosmology, Norse"
really confusing].
Other headings may require more manual effort; what we need are foster
parents willing to adopt an orphan subject heading...
Simon
Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 15:40:36 EDT