XII. Electronic Term Matches

Matching vocabularies by computer can be a helpful preliminary step to building equivalents if the structures of the databases under consideration can be usefully linked. Caution should be exercised, however, for each machine-made link must be evaluated by a human editor to make sure that false matches have not been made. To date electronic matching has been done only between the AAT and British English and American English vocabularies: Machine matches have been made with the RCHME database, with the subject headings of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and English subject headings of the Répertoire des Vedettes-Matières in Québec, Canada, and with the Canadian Heritage Information Network Humanities Database. This kind of term matching may be most useful to teams working out of their own offices away from the AAT computer system.

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