tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post7324783986820374235..comments2024-03-28T08:15:09.715-04:00Comments on The Accidental Taxonomist: Related Terms in Taxonomies and ThesauriHeather Heddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-23671377841783349852018-05-01T11:01:03.907-04:002018-05-01T11:01:03.907-04:00Hi Will,
Use of scope notes a good suggestion. Sco...Hi Will,<br />Use of scope notes a good suggestion. Scope notes would not replace RT relationships, though. Furthermore, while indexers are trained to look at scope notes, end users sometimes overlook them.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-89942741965405858902018-05-01T04:52:58.832-04:002018-05-01T04:52:58.832-04:00Hi Heather
When we have sibling concepts with over...Hi Heather<br />When we have sibling concepts with overlapping meanings, rather than just creating RT links I think it is more important and helpful to have scope notes for each concept, to help indexers and searchers to decide which to use. In a thesaurus we may have to define a concept as having a narrower scope than its term implies in everyday speech, in order to reduce or remove the uncertainty caused by overlapping meanings. We might hope that users would look at an array of sibling concepts before deciding which are the most appropriate, but I'm sure that that often doesn't happen and people will seize on a term that seems relevant and use it without exploring the thesaurus structure further for anything better. Regards, Leonard.Leonard Willnoreply@blogger.com