Bridging Community Resource Gateways by Linking Community Taxonomies

• Published in: Asian Digital Libraries Vol. 4822; pp. 482 - 486
• Main Authors: Lee, Wonsook, Nagamori, Mitsuharu, Sugimoto, Shigeo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2007; Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Community Taxonomy; Crosswalk of Web Directories; Knowledge Organization; Subject Headings; Switching Language
• ISBN: 9783540770930; 3540770933
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_61

Many communities provide Web resource directories to help users find useful resources in the community. A typical example is a resource directory in a homepage of a local government. Crosswalk of the directories of neighboring communities is a crucial function for users to collect useful resources from the communities. However, an appropriate scheme bridging the community directories is required. This paper proposes a few mapping schemes to connect community directories and compares them by applying them to the resource directories of three local governments - Tokyo and Hokkaido in Japan and Chungcheongnam-do in Korea. The mapping schemes use National Diet Library Subject Heading (NDLSH) and/or Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC) as a switching language. Evaluation of the proposed schemes shows their advantages and limitations.