On 01/06/2011 08:34, Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
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> 31.05.2011 21:21, Cindy Harper:
>> So I'm very uninformed and a newbie, experience-wise, to the semantic
>> web.
>> But I wondered if there were a visual semantic-net viewing
>> application that
>> would allow a person to browse through the BTs and NTs in the syndetic
>> structure of LCSH.
> An entirely different approach is here, the LCSH Browser:
>
> http://www.allegro-c.de/db/lcsh/
>
> This is no graphically enhanced view, though.
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Bernhard's tool is very good. Still, it would be interesting to have a
view such as found in the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, e.g.
http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=chippendale&logic=AND¬e=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300263588,
and you can easily see and navigate the entire hierarchies. The USDA
National Agriculture Library has a nice view as well, e.g.
http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/mtwdk.exe?k=default&l=60&w=68488&n=1&s=5&t=2, and
you can click to see the Hierarchy.
This was something I was hoping that could be done similarly with the
id.loc.gov site but the subdivisions are not encoded separately, only
with double hyphens, like on the cards. Still, it may be useful to be
able to see the entire hierarchy for, e.g. "Fine bindings", e.g.
----------Auxiliary sciences of history
--------Civilization
------Social sciences
----Sociology
--Communication
Visual communication
Art
--Graphic arts
----Printing
------Print finishing processes
--------Bookbinding
-----------Fine bindings
with everything clickable like in the AAT. It works fairly well with
separate clicks in id.loc.gov but it's not all on one page so you don't
get the same overview as you do in the AAT or in the NAL Thesaurus. Plus
somehow, I think the subdivisions need to be added into this to get a
more comprehensive idea of what is available and how it all works.
Of course, the other thesauri are faceted, so it may be more difficult
with LCSH. Or then again, maybe not.
--
James Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com
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Received on Wed Jun 01 2011 - 05:40:35 EDT