Authority Subject Classification
Project:
To develop a hierarchical thesaurus of authority subject terms.
Goals:
- Organize the existing subject terms in the 2002 Weldon Thesaurus, placing them into categories grouped by topic and sub-topic.
- Enter the hierarchy into a new table (the AAR table, as explained below) in the IsisCB Explore system.
- Index and display the AAR data during user searches to show broader, narrower, and related subject terms.
- Provide hierarchical pages for topic areas that will enable users and curators to better visualize and characterize the sciences within their varied historical contexts.
The Team
- Kraig Bartel organized over 2700 subject authorities in the IsisCB as of July 2020.
- Julia Damerow set up an Authority-to-Authority Relationship (AAR) Table in the IsisCB Explore system that will allow encoding of hierarchical and horizontal relationships among authorities.
- Stephen Weldon prepared the first authority relationship set.