On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> as part of a New Opportunities Fund 'Digitize' project we are establishing a
> web-site which is designed to integrate archaeological, archive and museum
> information. The archaeological information is a limited amount of SMR
> information and plans resulting from our Extensive Urban Survey. The archive
> and museum information comes from the huge range of different sources that
> you might expect. We are trying to think about how to search for information
> from the different sources. Each uses Thesauri particular to their own field
> and inevitably each Thesaurus was designed completely independently of the
> other fields which makes searches difficult to say the least. For example,
> if a user wants to seach for Industry in a particular town, we want the
> search engine to throw up the excavation report of the Roman kiln, a plan
> showing the location of the medieval tannery, photos of 19th c. workers and
> a 1972 report called the 'Industry of Smalltown'. The archaeological info
> will be classified according to the RCHME thesaurus inherent in exeGesIS,
> and the archive info will use the thesaurus inherent in our CALM software.
> We can't reclassify hundreds of thousands of records and we want one search
> to generate all the available information. Is this likely to prove a major
> problem?
Yes!
> Does anyone out there have experience at creating these kinds of
> links between thesauri?
This is precisely the problem that HILT (HIgh Level Thesaurus) is
addressing -
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
They had a workshop yesterday, but were struggling to find people willing
to attend from the museum community (I had another, even more important,
meeting that day) and I haven't had any feedback yet.
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Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer
http://ianmorrison.topcities.com/index.htm
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