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

[Melvin Jay Kumar]

Hi Alex,

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Out of curiousity, even if the mapping is done from the upper
ontology, isn't the semantic value of the terms of DDC and LCSH going
to differ?

Unless, you did a manual process of mapping the terms from DDC and
LCSH, even then , there is no accurate mapping between DDC and LCSH.

In addition to that, the terms could have being manually mapped, but
that doesn't mean when you share the resources , they would be similar
in nature.

There is a very high chance of getting a lot of garbage, based on the
"tagging" done on both sides.

Am I talking nonsense here? ;P

Thank You.

regards,

Jay


On 12/17/05, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/17/05, Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au> wrote:
> > well, they only would need to do the crosswalk of just the terms
> > they use (a hundred or two), not the full LCSH.
>
> Don't know about you, but I'd give it a go as the mapping is in the
> upper ontology only, and is only a small set (that's enough
> ambiguity[sp] to maybe make it work).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
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