Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
> *most demanding user.* To the third, that very long list at the end of
> my email were official "NT" terms from LOC's general website, accessible
> to all.
Are you sure? I'm having trouble figuring out how to get LCSH "NT/BT"
relationships from the loc website. Which website, authorities.loc.gov?
Please explain further. I'd be interested in getting access to NT/BT
information if there's a way to. All I could find, is I could lookup the
heading "Linguistics" in "authorities", and then click on it--but to me,
it looks like what it gives me is then any 6xx field found in the LC
corupus that has the keyword "Linguistics" in it. Could be
"Linguistics--" subdivisons (but without the '--' displaying for some
reason; subdivisions are different than NT/BT relationships in LCSH),
could be other terms that include the word 'linguistics' in them, etc.
Am I missing something?
For catalogs that are not LC's to display NT/BT relatinsihps, we'd need
them in machine readable/understadnable format of course, not just on an
LC website. You can get those from the LC authority MARC, i know, but
officially it costs a lot of money to get the entire authority marc file
(or you can get it unofficially from Project Fred, although it may not
be up to date). [Of course, LC has the LC authority marc file! So LC
could have interfaces that display and act on this information--if their
OPAC software provides for it. But as far as I can tell, LC catalog
interfaces don't. Again, let me know if I'm missing something.]
Jonathan
Jonathan
Received on Sat Jun 09 2007 - 07:04:17 EDT