On Tue, 19 May 2009, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> So I say the concept representing "Italy--History--1492-1559--Fiction" needs
> to have a relationship defined to the "concept" from the NAF representing
> "Italy". The problem with this is right now there's no semantic web URI for
> the NAF. So, there needs to be.
Indeed. The distiction between the NAF and the SAF is very artificial and
should probably just be done away with. The fact that LC maintains a list of
"ambiguous entities" to help catalogers remember which file to put things in
says it all.
> Is there any guidance as to what terms from the "name headings" can be used
> to construct LCSH subjects?
Yes there is, section H430 of the Subject Cataloging Manual, "Names as
Subjects". The short answer is all of them, except for the exceptions. :-)
One example is when an author writes under multiple names. Generally only one
of those names is used as a subject, in order to pull all of the works about
that author together.
> It's still odd to me that "Italy" winds up in the name file. I guess it's a
> "corporate author"? But I don't think there are any works written by
> "Italy". Weird. I guess geographic headings just wind up in the "name" file
> instead of the "subject" file as a matter of convention?
Places that coincide with government jurisdictions end up in the name file.
They're the authors of all sorts of laws, reports, treaties, etc.
Brian
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Received on Tue May 19 2009 - 11:46:12 EDT