Bridging Community Resource Gateways by Linking Community Taxonomies

Wonsook Lee, Mitsuharu Nagamori, and Shigeo Sugimoto

Abstract. 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.

Keywords: Community Taxonomy, Crosswalk of Web Directories, Switching Language, Subject Headings, Knowledge Organization

LNCS 4822, p. 482 ff.

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