I don't know what system these collections are in, but isn't this what tagging is for? The idea has died out in libraries, but this seems like a perfect use case for a folksonomy. :-)
Laura On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:21 AM Brian Kennison <kennis...@wcsu.edu> wrote: > > Has anyone come up with a good way to provide this sort of access? > Thanks, > > Isn't this what topic-maps are for? > > Topics exist independently of any resources but allow you to link > resources to topics (it's kind of like classification in traditional > library setting). The problem I'm having is that it is hard to find an > engine. No one is working on it any more but the problem still exist. I've > been looking at a python engine (mappa) and a python base wiki > (meduse-wiki) but I'm still not there. There are lots of unanswered > questions but I haven't seen any better solutions. > > --Brian >