SGC – General List of Subject Headings COBISS.SI
SGC (COBISS.SI General List of Subject Headings) is an authority database for subject headings.
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SGC contains authority records for subject headings in Slovenian and in English. Records for topical and geographic names prevail, some records are for personal names, family names, corporate names and uniform titles.
SGC is based on the Sears authority database by H. W. Wilson from 2001, which includes records for subject headings from the 17th edition of Sears List of Subject Headings from 2000. The following sources are used to supplement SGC with new terms: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH, http://authorities.loc.gov/), list of subject headings of the National Library of France (RAMEAU; Repertoire d'autorite-matiere encyclopedique et alphabetique unifie http://rameau.bnf.fr/), terms from fields for defining subject headings in the COBIB.SI database, etc.
Headings in the SGC database are brought in line with headings from LCSH or RAMEAU to a great extent, which refers also to various relations between terms. When editing, links to relevant LCSH, RAMEAU or MeSH headings are added to SGC records. The language for SGC subject headings – under construction – is based on post-coordination, which means that subject headings are formed without the use of subdivisions. Component parts of the SGC language are as follows: controlled vocabulary, relations between terms, instructions for forming subject headings and rules for defining subject headings.
SGC covers all subject fields; the level of specificity is not limited. Headings for topical, family and geographic names are formed in accordance with the SGC rules. Headings for personal and corporate names and uniform titles are formed in compliance with relevant cataloguing rules.
List of search prefixes and suffixes
List of search prefixes
By using the search prefixes you determine the search index you wish to search. Below is a list of search prefixes with their meaning and examples of use:
| What does it mean? | Prefix | Search example |
|---|---|---|
| Chronological subdivision – eng | DZ= | DZ=Civil war, 1861* |
| Corporate name | CB= | CB=Združeni narodi |
| Geographic area code | GA= | GA=e-xv* |
| Topical name | TN= | TN=Elektrifikacija |
| Personal name | PN= | PN=Lincoln, Abraham* |
| Subject term – any | SU= | SU=Onesnaževanje |
| Family name | FN= | FN=Habsburžani* |
| Topical subdivision – eng | DX= | DX=Diseases |
| Geographic subdivision – eng | DY= | DY=United States |
| Geographic name | GN= | GN=Sava* |
| Subject term – normativna | SH= | SH=poljska |
| Subject term from another system | SF= | SF=econom* |
| Title | UT= | UT=talmud |
List of search suffixes
When searching in the basic index, i.e. word search, you can add search suffixes to the words in order to limit the word search to an individual search index. Below is a list of search suffixes with their meaning and examples of use:
| What does it mean? | Suffix | Search example |
|---|---|---|
| Chronological subdivision - eng | /DZ | war/DZ |
| Corporate name | /CB | Salvation*()Army*/CB |
| Topical name | /TN | televizij*/TN |
| Personal name | /PN | Kristus/PN |
| Subject term – any | /SU | (franc* AND 1789)/SU |
| Family name | /FN | rodbina/FN |
| Topical subdivision – eng) | /FN | employees/DX |
| Geographic subdivision – eng | /DY | Slovenia/DY |
| Geographic name | /GN | Slovenija/GN |
A list of all prefixes and suffixes used in COBISS+ is published here.
Information on database and provider
Information on database:
- Database type: authority
- Coverage: data on all types of subject headings (Slovenian and English)
- Number of records: over 59,000
- Updated: weekly
Information on provider:
- Provided by: IZUM – Institute of Information Science
- Address: Prešernova ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
- Telephone: +386 (0)2 2520 331
- Fax: +386 (0)2 2524 334
- E-mail: podpora@izum.si
- URL: http://www.izum.si/