This is a great beginning! At last!
I also noted (very quickly) that there are some links to Rameau (the French authority file), e.g. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85023121 that says: Similar concepts from other vocabularies and links to
This seems to have the scope notes also. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh99005758
Does this include any German headings?
I'll be very interested to see what you do with this, Bernhard!
Jim Weinheimer
> It was bemoaned on this list when LC withdrew
> the lcsh.info service.
> Now, it is back, and improved:
>
> http://id.loc.gov
>
> as Sally McCallum made known yesterday on DC-GENERAL:
> https://ww
> w.jiscmail
> .ac.uk/cgi
> -bin/webadmin?A2=ind0905&L=DC-GENERAL&T=0&F=&S=&P=937
>
> We have at once added a link into this for every LCSH term in our
> browser database:
>
> http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/lcsh/
>
> The link says "LCSH Info" and brings up
>
> id.loc.gov/authorities/<shnumber>#concept
> (The old lcsh.info/<shnumber> works just as well,
> BTW. As of yet.)
>
>
> with the sh number of the term - if our database has that number.
> The advantage of the browser is that you can browse alphabetically under
> terms, phrases, etc., and also the cross references.
>
> But more! The LCSH dataset itself has been made available for free
> downloading, in two different formats. You'll easily find it on the
> site. Names are not included, so the file totals 342.684 RDF records.
> We are looking into importing this to improve our browser database
> (which has 6.3 million records, including names, but is not current).
>
> B.Eversberg
Received on Tue May 05 2009 - 03:49:54 EDT