CRISSCROSS

Objective

The goal of the CrissCross project is the creation of a multilingual, user-friendly, thesaurus-based research vocabulary. To this end, the subject headings of the Subject Heading Authority Files (SWD) are linked with the notations of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Multilingualism will be achieved by the linkage to equivalents in two foreign-language authority files, the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH, in English) and Rameau (in French). It is organised based on the results of the MACS Project. Thus, users of the German research libraries can get access to heterogeneously indexed documents without them having to know the rules of the respective national or international access tools.

Project partners

The German National Library; Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Funding

German Research Foundation

Project duration

2006 - 2010

Project Homepage

www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/institut/projekte/CrissCross/index_en.html