Our cataloging department is starting to build a Web site related to the library's unique collection of United States Supreme Court Justices' autographs . Some of them are on documents, some on private correspondence, on calling cards, or on photographs. It is our goal to create a Web site that will educate and inform students and public alike, all over the world, as well as bring exposure to the University and the College of Law for this unique and very special collection. Content, Categories, and Links. Consistency, both in form and in structure, is an important objective in the creation of subject headings.
Relevance is a big factor, of course.
Searches should be made to ascertain whether or not the new Web site would be adding anything new to the Web world. We may use a search engine to find Web sites with content similar to our topic, in order to make decisions about the content for our own site, or possible hyperlinks we may want to add. At this point, the cataloger's skill at delineating and distinguishing between similar names or concepts comes in handy. For instance, we might find that adding the birth year of a Supreme Court justice to our search gives us more meaningful results. Although today's search engines are sophisticated enough to use the entire text of a web document for access, the cataloger might want to think of synonyms or alternative phrasing for the document's key terms, and add these in the HTML Head space.