Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> But that heading has an authority record in LCSH. What you're really
> critisizing is LCSH itself, rather than the SKOSified representation
> at id.loc.gov. As long as that heading has an authority record in
> LCSH, I am 100% positive that the right thing to do is to give it a
> URI in SKOS. LCSH itself has already made the decision that
> "Aeronautics, Military--Accidents--Italy, Northern--History" is indeed
> a single concept.
It's a single "heading," but definitely is made up of individual parts.
That 'parts' bit is key to LCSH - both to how you form the headings, and
how you are supposed to navigate them. Some topics can be 'divided'
geographically, some can be 'divided' by time period, some by form. The
only indivisible groups of subfields seem to be the "topic -- subtopic"
ones.
So one thing is the LCSH record, which represents part or all of an
established *heading*. But, as in descriptive cataloging, headings are
made up of authoritative terms + other terms, all of it following strict
rules. So there is a distinction between a heading and authoritative
forms for elements of the headings.
kc
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