Comments on: Facet-Based Search and Navigation With LCSH: Problems and Opportunities

By: Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:40:21 +0000

Just leaving a pointer to another article that may be of interest:

Yi, Kwan, & Chan, Lois Mai (2010). Revisiting the syntactical and structural analysis of Library of Congress Subject Headings for the digital environment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21295

Haven’t read it yet.

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:55:09 +0000

Thanks to Ed Summers for pointing out a pair of interesting essays from 1988 by Mary Dykstra that approach many of the same issues as this article. Mary Dykstra. "LC Subject Headings Disguised as a Thesaurus" Library Journal . 1988 . Volume: 113 . Issue: 4 . Page: 42 - 46. (COinS) Mary Dykstra. "Can Subject Headings Be Saved?" Library Journa., 09/15/88, Vol. 113 Issue 15, p55-58.(COinS)

By: Kelley McGrath

Kelley McGrath — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:02:59 +0000

When I was working on this article, Jonathan Rochkind kept asking me if I couldn’t include more short-term, straightforward solutions that could be implemented with existing LCSH. Regretfully, I was unable to think of any, but maybe someone else can come up with some brilliant solutions?

I would be interested to know what other sorts of problems or oddities people have come across when trying to implement or use faceted LCSH that I didn’t mention in the article.

By: Winona Salesky

Winona Salesky — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:10:45 +0000

The issues addressed in the article really resonated with me. I’ve been struggling with how to implement faceting with LCSH for a few months now and this article touches on pretty much all of the issues Iâ€™ve run into. I havenâ€™t come to any brilliant solutions for my authority issues based on the article, but it has given me some food for thought.