Experimental Spanish version of LCSH
An alert just brought me news that there is a new version of lcsh-es.org LC Subject Headings in Spanish can be searched here and is described as:
This an experimental Spanish-English/English-Spanish list of subject headings. Please use it with caution! The data is not completely current a much of it has not been checked thoroughly. For more information see the Sources and About pages.
I think this source would have been helpful to students in the hispanic theology program at my former institution that couldn’t always think of the correct term to search in English.
July 28, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I attended a session at PLA 2008 that addressed lchs-es.org.
The title of the session was “Bilingual Subject Access for the 21st Century”.
The following are my notes for the session:
Michael Kreyche (Digital Resource Development Specialist and Associate Professor at Kent State University) the force behind “LC Subject Headings in Spanish” or http://www.lchs-es.org spoke on the importance of adding Spanish subject headings to bibliographic records for Spanish titles. Mr. Kreyche mentioned the title “SALSA de Tópicos = Subjects in SALSA” as an excellent book on the topic of serving Spanish-speaking users
The goals of lchs-es.org are:
• Providing a freely available, current, comprehensive as possible, and helpful resource for Spanish language subject access
• Providing a collaborative environment
• Providing a database of Spanish subject headings which are MARC based
The new version of lchs-es.org (will be implemented in the spring of 2008) will feature:
• New interactivity functionality (authority records for most subject headings, cross references)
• Enhanced searching capability
• Community based collaboration
• Login will be required
The session was interesting and helpful; we are already currently using lchs-es.org to supplement Bilindex terms and it was insightful to hear an update on new features lchs-es.org will add in the future.
FYI–
-Robert
August 4, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thanks for reporting on the PLA session.
August 25, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I’ve just posted my portion of the PLA presentation at http://lcsh-es.org/links.html, along with a poster presented in Mexico last May and a presentation I just made at IFLA. Feel free to comment here or on my blog, blog.lcsh-es.org.
Mike