Article,
Crossing language barriers in Europe: linking LCSH to other subject heading languages
Cataloging & classification quarterly, (2000)
Abstract
A study group representing four European national libraries (the Swiss National Library, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the Bibliotheque nationale de France and The British Library) recently conducted a study on the possibility of establishing multilingual thesaural links between the headings in the LCSH authority file and the authority files of the German indexing system SWD/RSWK and the French indexing system RAMEAU. The study demonstrated a high level of correspondence in main headings, but also revealed a number of issues requiring further investigation. The study group's findings led to recommendations on the scope for the development of a prototype system for linking the three Subject Heading Languages (SHLs) in the databases of the four institutions.
