Thanks for this post. Most enlightening and clear, but I do have a question. I think that library catalogers actually understand the principal ideas quite clearly but the tools and vocabulary for many are very new and off-putting to many. Anyway, for the last 100 or so years, catalogers have been creating their own tools that have attempted to deal with "identity" by using collation. The new tools do much the same but do not use collation and rely on other methods. In any case, how do we get our stuff to work together with some of these new tools? For example, "Cultural history" in dbpedia: http://dbpedia.org/page/Cultural_history [by the way, I hadn't seen the great subj3ct site!] and in LC, where we see that the term "Cultural history" is a See reference to: Civilization--History http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=4678781&v1=1&HC=4&SEQ=20091027081951&PID=nt-vL1_MX1Mhiv-g2TwPetjwfj and Bernhard's version: http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/lcsh/page.php?urG=|1&urS=cultural+history and the SKOS version with bizarre labels (I think) where the see reference is called: "Alternate labels" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85026424 Once we can all cooperate, it will be a new world. Jim WeinheimerReceived on Tue Oct 27 2009 - 08:41:33 EDT