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Hi Andrew, Yep that approach works and is the standard way of doing things in the thesaurus world but I think what I'm getting at is that the two are separate concepts ie. One is an object and one is a material so the object BRICK shouldn't even be in the materials thesaurus. As to concepts this is the way we want to move in EH. See my diatribe that I'm just about to post. Phil Phil Carlisle Data Standards Supervisor English Heritage National Monuments Record Centre Kemble Drive Swindon SN2 2GZ +44 (0)1793 414824 http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/ The information contained within this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee only. If you have received the e-mail in error, please inform the sender and delete it from your system. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed to anyone else or copied without the sender's consent. Any views and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of English Heritage. English Heritage will not take any responsibility for the views of the author. -----Original Message----- From: The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Larcombe Sent: 08 February 2007 10:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [FISH] His Dark Materials Thesaurus 3: The Amber Compromise CARLISLE, Philip wrote: > Now we still have to get round the contentious issue of the B-word (ie. > when is a material, a material and not a form of material). I'm not sure you do. Isn't the problem that labels are being conflated with concepts in much of this debate. We have two concepts (brick the material, brick the object) - have two entries in the hierarchy, one for each concept, they just happen to have a similar label. In terms of disambiguation from a user's point of view, they should marked as homonyms with a reference to their wider term, and a link to there related homonym, eg BRICK [BUILDING MATERIAL] (also see BRICK [FORM]) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Larcombe Freelance Geospatial, Database & Web Programming web: http://www.andrewlarcombe.co.uk email: [log in to unmask] mob: +44 (7760) 258623 icq: 306690163