Crossing language barriers in europe: Linking lcsh to other subject heading languages

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 199-207

  Macewan, Andrew ^a  

^a BRITISH LIBRARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lcsh; Multilingual thesauri; Rameau; Subject Heading Language; Swd Rswk

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013920808     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v29n01_14     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. CoBRA+ Working Group on Multilingual Subject Access. Final report, Bern, March 1999. .
2. RAMEAU is the acronym for Répertoire d’Autorité-Matière Encyclopédique et Alphabétique Unifié.
3. SWD is the abbreviation used for Schlagwortnormdatei, the German language list of subject headings. (Ed. note: At other points in this paper, the author refers to the system as “SWD/RSWK.” The second initialism stands for the Regeln für den Schlagwortkatalog, or, Rules for the Subject Catalogue.)
4. Working Group on Principles Underlying Subject Heading Languages, IFLA Section on Classification and Indexing, Principles Underlying Subject Heading Languages (SHLs), Final Draft.Maria Inês Lopes and Julianne Beall, eds., March 1997.