[Sigia-l] Re: Faceted Classification

[Christopher Fahey [askrom]]

> There still appears to be some control here, working from what 
> librarians call an authority list. For example, note that there are 
> 56 entries with the building name Angkor Wat (I *love* the fact that 
> they tell you how many items are associated with each term). Someone 
> took the care to ensure that alternate spellings of Angkor Wat were 
> not allowed.

My guess is that all 56 entries for Angkor Wat were entered into the DB
on the same day by a single person. There are plenty of examples of
multiple spellings in the list, and several inexplicable examples where
there are two entries spelled identically. Most of the buildings in the
list have only one (1) entry. To require a librarian to check each new
entry for an existing alternate spelling from among thousands of other
terms sounds like a rather thankless job!

-Cf

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