[Sigia-l] crosswalks thesauri - does context matter?

Eric Scheid eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au
Fri Dec 16 10:30:47 EST 2005


On 16/12/05 8:42 PM, "Alexander Johannesen" <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>> They want to do a cross walk
>> from LCSH to DDC, and have the corresponding DDC terms
>> automatically included when they export articles tagged with
>> LCSH terms.
> 
> Do you have this mapping? It is a fairly hairy, huge and substancial
> one, and also one that cannot be correct 20% of the time especially
> when lingustically mapped. Maybe it is this mapping you're asking
> about?

well, they only would need to do the crosswalk of just the terms they use (a
hundred or two), not the full LCSH.


> Hope this helps a little,

thanks heaps.

e.




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