Multilingual subject access: The linking approach of MACS

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 177-191

  Landry, Patrice ^a  

^a Swiss National Library   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Equivalent headings; Library Of congress subject headings (LCSH); MACS (Multilingual access to subjects); Multilingual subject access; R pertoire d autorit mati re encyclop dique et alphab tique unifi (RAMEAU); Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) regeln f R den schlagwortkatalog (RSWK); Subject heading languages (SHLs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920872715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v37n03_11     Document Type: Chapter

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