|
Name |
ADL Thesaurus Protocol |
|
Institution or agency |
University of California,
Santa Barbara |
|
URL |
project site at
http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/thesaurus/ demonstrator page at
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/%7Efacet/formats/skos/skos_search.htm |
|
Contact information |
Linda Hill, Ph.D. Alexandria Digital Library Project UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106 |
|
Project type |
Production |
|
Project dates |
|
|
Status of project |
Current with demonstrator
project available for public viewing |
|
Languages |
|
|
Knowledge organization
systems (KOS) |
Thesauri |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
Protocol for exchange of
thesaurus information. Thesaurus data exchange tool The Thesaurus Protocol is
based on the ANSI/NISO (1993) Z39.19 thesaurus model and supports
downloading, querying, and navigating thesauri. |
|
Methodology |
In 2001-2002, the ADL
Implementation team developed a Thesaurus Service Protocol. It is a lightweight, stateless, XML- and HTTP-based
protocol designed to support searching and retrieval of thesaurus data. All
that is required for its use is the development of a thesaurus server that
can accept the specified XML-encoded queries and return the specified
standard reports. The demonstrator
system loads a thesaurus of choice (from a proffered list). The thesaurus can
then be searched by keyword. Displays of results take several
formats--alphabetical list of retrieved terms with USE references,
hierarchical display, scope notes. |
|
User interface |
The Thesaurus Protocol is
based on the ANSI/NISO (1993) Z39.19 thesaurus model and supports
downloading, querying, and navigating thesauri. |
|
Relevant standards |
XML, XML Schemas, HTTP, ANSI/NISO Z39.19-1993 (thesaurus
structure), XPATH, SKOS |
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
ADL Thesaurus Protocol
cited in recent articles in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly (vol. 37
no 3-4 2004) Janée, G, Ikeda, S. &
Hill, L.L. (2002). The ADL Thesaurus Protocol. Alexandria Digital Library
Project. Available: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/thesaurus/protocol/specification.html Binding, Ceri and Douglas
Tudhope. KOS at your service: programmatic access to knowledge organization
systems. Journal of digital information: vol. 4, issue 4, art. 265 (Feb. 5,
2004) Zeng, M. & Chan, L.M.
(2004). Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge
organization systems. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science, 55(5), 377-395. |
|
Project Name |
AGROVOC |
|
Institution or Agency |
Food and Agricultural
Organization of the United Nations |
|
URL |
http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/ |
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Operational |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: Arabic,
Chinese, Czech, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesaurus |
|
Subject Coverage |
Agriculture |
|
Description |
Multilingual agricultural
thesaurus. |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
A user selects one of the
languages and submits a string in that language to the AGROVOC database. The
result is a list of terms and phrases that begin with the string. On the same
page is a thesaural display of the first term in the list, and a list of
equivalent terms in the other languages with links to thesaural displays of
the term in these languages. A user select other terms from the list. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
Art & Architecture
Thesaurus (AAT) |
|
Institution or Agency |
Getty Research Institute |
|
URL |
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/ |
|
Contact Information |
Getty Research Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive,
Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688 (310) 440-7335 griweb@getty.edu |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Operational |
|
Languages |
Multilingual |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Thesaurus |
|
Subject Coverage |
Art, Architecture and
Material Culture |
|
Description |
The AAT is one of three
Getty vocabularies which provide terminology and other information about the
objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that
specialize in art, architecture and material culture. |
|
Methodology |
The AAT is a structured
vocabulary containing terms and other information about concepts. Terms for
any concept may include the plural form of the term, singular form, natural
order, inverted order, spelling variants, various forms of speech, equivalent
terms in various languages and synonyms of different etymological roots.
Among these terms one is flagged as the preferred term or descriptor for the
concept. |
|
User Interface |
Online public access
catalogs and/or the Getty Web Site |
|
Relevant Standards |
MARC 21, XML |
|
Notes |
The other two Getty
vocabularies are: the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), which contains
names and other information about places; and the Union List of Artist Names,
which contains names and other information about artists. |
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
BUBL |
|
Institution or Agency |
Centre for Digital Library
Service, |
|
URL |
http://bubl.ac.uk/ |
|
Contact Information |
BUBL Information Service Centre for Digital Library
Service Department of Computer and
Inofrmation Sciences 0141 548 4752 bubl@bubl.ac.uk |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
1990- |
|
Project Status |
Operational |
|
Languages |
English |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Subject heading list and
classification system BUBL subject tree Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
BUBL is an Internet-based
information service for the |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
A user can browse for
subjects through the BUBL subject tree; browse through the DDC hierarchy; or
search by author, title, subject, DDC, or resource type. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
CAMed |
|
Institution or Agency |
Columbia University and
Kent State University |
|
URL |
http://circe.slis.kent.edu/mzeng/tmshome.html |
|
Contact Information |
Marcia Lei Zeng School of Library and
Information Science Kent State University Kent, OH 44242-0001 mzeng@kent.edu |
|
Project Type |
Research/prototype |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Current? |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Thesauri AcuBase Thesaurus AMED Thesuarus JICST MiliMedicalThesaurus |
|
Subject Coverage |
Complementary and
Alternative Medicine |
|
Description |
An integrated thesaurus
management and cross-thesaurus search system for complementary and
alternative medicine (CAM). |
|
Methodology |
Four thesauri in the areas
of CAM were normalized and stored in a thesaurus repository. This system
allows a database manager to manage and edit his thesaurus in his local
office through a Web interface, while the thesauri are deposited and hosted
on a server at Kent State University. |
|
User Interface |
The cross-thesaurus search
function allows a user to enter a term and search all or any of the thesauri
in this repository. Software matches the query
against the thesauri and gives back all fully- or partially-matched thesaurus
entries. When a term is selected from
the search results, a user can see the details of a thesaurus term entry
(including the broader, narrower, and related terms, as well as non-preferred
terms) and continue selecting among
the terms displays. The term-search eventually
enables a direct search in four bibliographical
databases (samples) that
have been integrated in the prototype.
The term search function also extends to the full-text searching of
all resources in the CAMed website. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citations |
Zeng, M. & Chen, Y.
(2003). Features of an integrated thesaurus management and search system for
the networked environment. In I.C. McIlwaine (Ed.), Subject retrieval in a
networked environment. Proceedings of an IFLA satellite meeting held in
Dublin, Ohio, 14-16 August 2001 (pp. 122-128). Munchen: K.G. Saur. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Project Name |
CARMEN (Content Analysis,
Retrieval and Metadata: Effective Networking) |
|
Institution or Agency |
|
|
URL |
http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/projects/carmen12/index.html.en |
|
Contact Information |
Dr. Friedrich Geisselmann Universitätsbibliothek
Regensburg 93042 Regensburg Germany friedrich.geisselmann@bibliothek.uni-regensburg,de |
|
Project Type |
Research/prototype |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Current? |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English, German |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Thesauri, classification
systems and subject headings lists Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften
(IZT) {Thesaurus} German Institute for Educational
Reasearch Thesaurus Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) {Subject
heading list} Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Regensburger Verbund Klassifikation (RVK) Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) Physics and Astronomy Classification
Scheme (PACS) |
|
Subject Coverage |
Social Sciences,
Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy |
|
Description |
The goal is to provide an
integrated subject search in distributed databases representing different
disciplines, taking into account the conceptual differences of the applied
thesauri and classifications by cross concordances. |
|
Methodology |
Starting from alphabetical
lists which contain descriptors from a specific subject area, the
relationships between IZT, the German Institute for Educational Research
Thesaurus and SWD are determined intellectually. After the relationships have
been established, they are recorded in a link management system. |
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citations |
Kunz, M. (2002). Sachliche
Suche in verteilten Ressourcen: Ein kurzer Überblick über neuere
Entwicklungen [Subject retrieval in distributed resources: a short review of
recent developments. Paper presented at the 68th IFLA Council and General
Conference, Aug. 18-24, 2002, Glasgow, UK. Available:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/007-122g.pdf English translation available: http:
//www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/007-122g.pdf Zeng & Chen (2004). |
|
Name |
Classification Web |
|
Institution or agency |
Library of Congress |
|
URL |
http://classweb.loc.gov/ |
|
Contact information |
Cheryl C. Cook Product Coordinator Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution
Service Washington, DC 20541-4912 ccoo@loc.gov |
|
Project type |
Production |
|
Project dates |
|
|
Status of project |
Current, in production |
|
Language |
English |
|
Knowledge organization
systems (KOS) |
Classification system,
Subject heading list Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH) {Subject heading list} |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
This project links LCC
numbers to LCSH headings and vice versa. |
|
Methodology |
LCC numbers are added to
LCSH authority records; and LCSH headings are added to LCC authority records. |
|
User interface |
In Classification Web users
can move across the KOS through the links that habeen established. |
|
Relevant Standards |
MARC 21 |
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Zeng and Chan (2004). |
|
Name |
Czech National Subject
Gateway Project and Uniform Information Gateway |
|
Institution or agency |
National Library of the
Czech Republic |
|
URL |
Uniform Information
Gateway: http://www.jib.cz ; User interface:
|
|
Contact information |
|
|
Project type |
Production |
|
Project dates |
2nd version
released March 2003 |
|
Status of project |
Current |
|
Language |
Czech |
|
Knowledge organization
systems |
|
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
The Czechs explored
building subject portals for online resources and existing bibliographic
records. They surveyed the field of national bibliographical agencies to see
what sources they use for subject terminology. Like other similar projects,
this is an attempt to achieve interoperability through control of descriptive
cataloging. |
|
Methodology |
Mapping was being done
intellectually on the main classes and principal subdivisions level: in order
to reach the highest possible accuracy in mapping process, it was necessary
to use common auxiliary subdivisions. Contains four files: geographic,
chronological, genre/form, and topical authority files. Subject
categorization of heterogeneous information resources using Conspectus method
is used. The scheme consists of mapping DDC and UDC. Topics authority terms
contain English equivalents. |
|
User interface |
Aleph interface allows user
to search subjects authority records or conspectus records in a number of
languages. |
|
Relevant standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citations |
Stoklasova, Bohdana, Marie
Balikova and Ludmila Celbova. The relationship between subject gateways and
national bibliographies in international context. Paper presented at 69th
IFLA General Conference and Council, 1-9 August 2003, Berlin. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/054e-Stoklasova_Balikova_Celbova.pdf |
|
Project Name |
DARPA Unfamiliar Metadata
Project |
|
Institution or Agency |
University of California
Berkeley |
|
URL |
http://metadata.sims.berkeley.edu/GrantSupported/unfamiliar.html |
|
Contact Information |
Michael Buckland Professor Emeritus School of Information
Management and Systems University of California,
Berkeley South Hall 203A Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 (510) 642-3159 buckland@sims.berkeley.edu |
|
Project Type |
Research/prototype |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Complete? |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French, German, Russian, Spanish |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Thesauri and classification
systems INSPEC Thesuarus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)? U.S. Patent and Trade Office Patent
Classification World Intellectual Property Organization
International Patent Classification Library of Congress Classification in the
Physical Sciences Standard Industrial Classification |
|
Subject Coverage |
Biotechnology, Physical
Sciences, Technology |
|
Description |
"The objective of this
project is to link ordinary language queries to unfamiliar indexes and
classifications." |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
Entry Vocabulary Modules are
built to respond adaptively to a searcher's query posed in ordinary language.
A searcher can enter an ordinary language query to a particular database, and
the searcher will be presented with a ranked list of terms from the
database's vocabulary. The searcher can then use these terms to perform a
search of the database. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
This project was carried
out under the auspices of the Metadata Research Program of the School of
Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkely (http://metadata.sims.berkeley.edu).
Two later projects build on the work of the Unfamiliar Metadata Project: the
DARPA TIDES Project, Translingual Information Management Using Domain
Ontologies; and the Seamless Searching of Numeric and Textual Resources,
funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
|
Citation |
Buckland, M., Chen, A.,
Chen, H., Kim, Y., Lam, B., Larson, R., Norgard, B., & Purat, J. (1999).
Mapping entry vocabulary to unfamiliar metadata vocabularies, D-Lib Magazine
[Online], 5(1). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/buckland/01buckland.html Zeng & Chen (2004). |
|
Project Name |
DESIRE |
|
Institution or Agency |
DESIRE Consortium |
|
URL |
http://www.desire.org/ |
|
Contact Information |
Tracy Hooper DESIRE Project Manager Institute for Learning and
Research Technology University of Bristol 8-10 Berkeley Square Bristol BS8 1HH UK 44 117 928 7197 t.a.hooper@bristol.ac.uk |
|
Project Type |
Research |
|
Project Dates |
1998-2000 |
|
Project Status |
Complete? |
|
Languages |
|
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Subject gateways |
|
Subject Coverage |
|
|
Description |
The Project's focus was on
enhancing existing European information networks for research users across |
|
Methodology |
The Project participants
proposed a representation of the conceptual relationships typical of
controlled vocabularies using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). It
was hoped that such an approach would enable the use of generic RDF tools as
a basis for mapping between subject vocabularies. The Project report included
a proposal for a RDF/XML thesaurus schema that attempted to demonstrate how
the RDF data model could represent a web of inter-related concepts and terms
from more than one thesaurus. Registries were developed
for metadata application profiles
(http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/ra.php3); and metadata terminology
(http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/element.php3) |
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
During the second phase of
the Project (DESIRE II) some background work was conducted on subject
vocabularies in order to support the development of interoperable subject
gateways, especially with regard to multilinguality and the mapping of
different vocabularies. |
|
Citation |
|
|
Name |
The FACET Project |
|
Institution or agency |
Hypermedia
Research Unit School of
Computing University of
Glamorgan Pontypridd
CD37 1DL Wales, UK |
|
URL |
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~FACET/default.asp |
|
Contact information |
Douglas Tudhope (dstudhope@glam.ac.uk) Daniel Cunliffe
(djcunlif@glam.ac.uk) |
|
Project type |
Demonstration |
|
Project dates |
Initial funding covered
three year period, 2001-2003 |
|
Status of project |
Current with demonstrators
available for public viewing |
|
Languages |
English |
|
Knowledge organization
systems ( |
Thesauri; faceted thesauri |
|
Subject Coverage |
not subject specific; uses
thesaurus terms and data from AAT as demonstration |
|
Description |
The objective of the FACET
Project research has been to: “Develop
and evaluate retrieval tools based on a matching function incorporating
thesaurus semantic closeness measures.” The FACET Project attempts to find a
way to present thesaurus data to a searcher, to allow the user to search for
appropriate resources from displayed thesaurus terms and to provide the
searcher with behind the scenes expansion of a search based on concepts of
the semantic relationships among thesaurus terms. One premise of the project is the value of
the facet analysis model of thesaurus building. Demonstrators for the FACET
Project make use of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, as an example of a
faceted thesaurus. |
|
Methodology |
The FACET system
architecture comprises client and web browser interfaces, utilities that
interact with data objects, and an SQL server database that serves the
thesaurus information. In a recent (2004) publication, the developers of
FACET state that their intention is to “move toward and open (Web service)
platform … and build on a general
programmatic |
|
User interface |
Several web based search
and display interfaces are proposed in the demonstrators |
|
Relevant standards |
XML; the developers are recently
acknowledging that there needs to be a standardized protocol for the
presentation of representation of thesaurus data; they mention the ADL
protocol as a step in the right direction. |
|
Notes |
In short, the project
attempts to present thesaurus data in a meaningful way to searchers, to
propose expanded searching options by suggesting terms in context, and to
allow searchers to use the discovered terms in a query of resources. Initial funding from
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a |
|
Citation |
Tudhope, Binding, Ceri and Douglas
Tudhope. |
|
Project Name |
Finnish Project |
|
Institution or Agency |
|
|
URL |
|
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Operational |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
Finnish |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Subject heading list and
classification system General Finnish Subject Headings (GFSH)
{Subject heading list} Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
This project converts
assigned class numbers based on the Finnish abridged edition of UDC into GFSH
headings. |
|
Methodology |
A dictionary was created
that maps UDC numbers to GFSH headings. The dictionary was mechanically
applied to convert the bibliographic databases. |
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Himanka, J. & Kautto,
V. (1992). Translation of the Finnish abridged edition of UDC into General
Finnish Subject Headings. International Classification, 19, 131-134. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Project Name |
HEREIN (The European
Information Network on Cultutral Heritage) Thesaurus |
|
Institution or Agency |
European Heritage Network,
Council of |
|
URL |
http://www.european-heritage.net/sdx/herein/ |
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
In development |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English, French,
Spanish |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesaurus |
|
Subject Coverage |
Cultural heritage |
|
Description |
This multilingual thesaurus
is attached to the HERIN Project. It intends to offer a terminological
standard for national policies dealing with architectural and archaeological
heritage. |
|
Methodology |
Most of the terms in the
thesaurus come from reports on cultural heritage policy in |
|
User Interface |
Through the Project Web
site, a user can either search for a specific term, or browse through the
hierarchical classes. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Thérond, D. (2000).
European-Heritage Net: The European Heritage Network. Cultivate Interactive,
[Online] 2 Available: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/herein/ Zeng and Chan (2004). |
|
Name |
HILT (High Level Thesaurus
Project) |
|
Institution or agency |
Funded by JISC (Joint
Informations Systems Company) |
|
URL |
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk |
|
Contact information |
Dennis Nicholson Director of Research Centre for Digital Library
Research c/o Andersonian Library University of Strathclyde 101 St. James Road Glasgow G4 0NS 44 (0) 141 548 2102 d.m.nicholson@strath.ac.uk |
|
Project type |
Pilot Project |
|
Project dates |
2000- |
|
Status of project |
Current |
|
Language |
Multilingual |
|
Knowledge organization
systems (KOS) |
Thesauri, classification
systems, subject heading lists Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH) UNESCO Thesaurus RDN terminologies Wordmap taxonomies set |
|
Subject Coverage |
General and special |
|
Description |
The pilot project (Phase
II) will develop an online terminologies route map (or TeRM) that will map
subject schemes to user terminologies and to each other. |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
Phase I investigated the
problem of searching and browsing across a number of distributed services using
different indexing vocabularies and attempted to derive a set of
recommendations to help facilitate cross-searching and browsing by subject
between communities, services and initiatives. The results of these
investigations led to HILT Phase II, the Pilot Project described above. |
|
Citation |
Nicholson, D. & Wake,
S. (2003). HILT: Subject retrieval in a distributed environment. In I.C.
McIlwaine (Ed.), Subject retrieval in a networked environment. Proceedings of
an IFLA satellite meeting held in Dublin, Ohio, 14-16 August 2001 (pp.
61-67). Munchen: K.G. Saur. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Name |
H.W. Wilson Megathesaurus
for Omnifile Project |
|
Institution or agency |
H.W. Wilson |
|
URL |
|
|
Contact information |
|
|
Project type |
Production |
|
Project dates |
|
|
Status of project |
Active, in production |
|
Language |
English |
|
Knowledge organization
systems |
Thesauri |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
Merges KOS of different structural types H.W. Wilson has developed a “megathesaurus”
that gathers the vocabulary for all its indexes for inclusion in its Omnifile
product. The Omnifile product now includes six of the 11 Wilson periodical
files, plus all of the full text from the remaining five files. Eventually
Omnifile will probably include all their files, but this may take some time,
since the remaining five are very specialized. Files covering non-periodical
material use different indexing vocabularies and do not form part of the
Omnifile product. |
|
Methodology |
Concepts merge into single
terms, while the megathesaurus retains the terminology used in the separate
indexes. The individual database products use the same terms as always; in
the Omnifile product, the megathesaurus equivalent appears. Wilson has
changed the vocabularies for individual products where conflict between
indexes used to exist. Homographs (two words that look the same though they
are not necessarily pronounced the same) are clarified by means of devices
such as qualifiers, and if a term was used differently in two indexes, e.g.,
“writing” as composition versus learning to write has been resolved. Names
used as subject descriptors appear uniformly across all files; only styling
rules are applied to author names. |
|
User interface |
Web, specifically,
"WilsonWeb". Megathesaurus is largely invisible to the user. |
|
Relevant standards |
Unknown |
|
Notes |
|
|
Citations |
Kuhr, P.S. (2003) Putting
the world back together: mapping multiple vocabularies into a single
thesaurus. In I.C. McIlwaine (Ed.), Subject retrieval in a networked
environment. Proceedings of an IFLA satellite meeting held in Dublin, Ohio,
14-16 August 2001 (pp. 33-42). Munchen: K.G. Saur. Milstead, Jessica. Cross
file searching: how vendors help--and don’t help--improve compatibility.”
Searcher, vol. 7, no. 5 (May 1999) |
|
Project Name |
IMesh |
|
Institution or Agency |
UKOLN: the |
|
URL |
http://www.imesh.org |
|
Contact Information |
UKOLN c/o The Library BA2 7AY 44 1225 38658 imesh-toolkit@imesh.org |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
Sept. 1999 - July 2003 |
|
Project Status |
|
|
Languages |
|
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Subject gateways |
|
Subject Coverage |
|
|
Description |
The Project will build on
existing subject software to develop a configurable, reusable and extensible
toolkit for subject gateway providers. |
|
Methodology |
Components evolve
independently but rely on each other to accomplish larger tasks. To achieve
interoperability the goal is for components to be able to call on one another
efficiently and conveniently. |
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
RDF, SQL |
|
Notes |
NSF/JISC International
Libraries Initiative. |
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
LCSH/MeSH
Mapping Project |
|
Institution
or Agency |
Northwestern University Libraries |
|
URL |
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public/lcshmesh/ |
|
Contact Information |
Tony
Olson Catalog
Librarian Galter
Health Sciences Library Northwestern
University 303
East Chicago Ave Chicago,
IL 60611 (312)
503-8125 ajolson@northwestern.edu |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
1990- |
|
Project Status |
Active, in development |
|
Languages |
English |
|
Knowledge
Organization Systems (KOS) |
Subject
heading lists Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Medical Subject headings (MeSH) Thesaurus |
|
Subject coverage |
General and medicine |
|
Description |
The goal of this project is
to integrate LCSH and MeSH in online catalogs. |
|
Methodology |
Corresponding established
headings in LCSH and MeSH are mapped, and the mapping data is entered into 7XX
linking fields of LCSH and MeSH MARC 21 authority records. The data in these
fields can be used to generate equivalent term references in an online
catalog. The mapping data is continually updated to take into account changes
in the two KOS. |
|
User Interface |
In online public access
catalogs see also references will
be provided between equivalent LCSH and MeSH headings. |
|
Relevant Standards |
MARC 21 |
|
Notes |
The project is still in
development because most library management systems do not yet index 7XX
fields in authority records, and consequently do not supply linking
references between equivalent LCSH and MeSH headings. The mapping data is
available for use in other interoperability projects. Files of enhanced LCSH
and MeSH authority records with the mapping data can be downloaded from the
Northwestern public http site above. |
|
Citation |
Olson, T. & Strawn, G. "Mapping the LCSH and MeSH
Systems." Information Technology and Libraries, 16(1) March 1997: p. 5-19. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Name |
LEAF
(Linking and Exploring Authority Files) |
|
Institution or agency |
multiple European
institutions; Dept. of Manuscripts,
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz; |
|
URL |
http://www.crxnet.com/leaf/ |
|
Contact information |
Name: WEBER, Jutta (Dr) |
|
Project type |
Research/prototype |
|
Project dates |
2001-2004 (Fifth Framework
Programme) |
|
Status of project |
Completed |
|
Languages |
Multilingual |
|
Knowledge information
systems |
Name authority files |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
Utility for creating
universal name authority file. [From the web site of the
Fifth Framework Programme] The beneficial potential of authority information
is presently only partly utilised by cultural heritage organisations:
libraries, archives, museums etc. are independently working with them without
jointly exploiting this valuable resource. Public users are not involved in
this scenario neighbouring work in the commercial sector is not integrated. LEAF
proposes a model for harvesting existing authority data and person
name/corporate body information in a multilingual environment. Via user
queries the LEAF system will automatically and dynamically
create a common name authority file with links to organisations that provide
information about a person or corporate body and/or items connected to them.
The LEAF model will be applicable to all projects and
co-operations that are dealing with cultural heritage data in all kinds of
institutions by making authority information available to everyone involved.
The project results will be implemented by extending an existing, fully
functional, international online Search and Retrieval service network of
OPACs that provides information about modern manuscripts and letters, the
MALVINE project. |
|
Methodology |
LEAF develops a model
architecture for establishing links between distributed authority records and
providing access to them. The system allows uploads of the distributed
authorities to the central system and automatically links those authorities
concerning the same entity. Information which is retrieved as a result of a
query will be stored in a pan-European "Central Name Authority
File". This file will grow with each query and at the same time will
reflect what data records are relevant to the LEAF users. Libraries and
archives wanting to improve authority information will thus be able to
prioritise their editing work. Registered users will be able to post
annotations to particular data records in the LEAF system, to search for
annotations, and to download records in various formats. The local authority data
that is uploaded to the central LEAF system is originally encoded in
different formats. In order to be able to compare individual records and thus
make them available for further operations one common exchange format needed
to be identified into which all records, independently of their native
format, can be converted. LEAF has adapted EAC for this purpose. The
conversion module of the central LEAF system consists of data conversion
routines for each local data structure which convert the uploaded or
harvested local records into EAC XML and the different character sets into
Unicode (UTF-8). The converted data are then further processed in the LEAF
system. In addition to the converted form records are saved in their local
formats as provided by the LEAF Data Providers. |
|
User interface |
None found (12/31/2004) |
|
Relevant standards |
XML, EAC
|
|
Notes |
most recent newsletter is
11/03 link to MALVINE yields a
blank page 2004/12/31 most scheduled
documentation of last 2 years not delivered online, including a final report |
|
Citations |
Kaiser, Max; Hans-Jorg
Lieder, Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant. New ways of sharing and using
authority information: the LEAF Project. D-lib magazine, vol. 9, no. 11 (Nov.
2003), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november03/lieder/11lieder.html |
|
Project Name |
Library & Archives of
Canada Bilingual Cataloguing |
|
Institution or Agency |
Library & Archives of
Canada |
|
URL |
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/csh/s23-120-e.html
(link to information about CSH and relation to RVM) |
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Operational |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Subject heading lists Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) {Subject
heading list} Répertoire de vedettes-matières (RVM) {Subject
heading list} Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
{Subject heading list} |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
To support the bilingual
cataloging policy of the Library & Archives of Canada (L&AC), all
publications cataloged by the L&AC are assigned subject headings in both
official languages, English and French. References between equivalent CSH and
RVM headings are displayed in the L&AC's online public access catalog,
AMICUS. |
|
Methodology |
Equivalent RVM and LCSH
headings are entered into 7XX fields of CSH MARC21 authority records. The
equivalent term references displayed in the online catalog are generated from
these 7XX fields. |
|
User Interface |
Online public access
catalog |
|
Relevant Standards |
MARC 21 |
|
Notes |
URL for AMICUS: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/index-e.html |
|
Citation |
Armstrong, Pam (2003).
"Navigating bilingual subject headings in AMICUS." Presented at the
program, Getting the Most Out of
Subject References in the Online Catalog: Better Than It Used to Be?
American Library Association Annual Conference, June 21, 2003, Toronto, Ontario. |
|
Project Name |
LIMBER (Language
Independent Metadata Browsing of European Organizations) |
|
Institution or Agency |
LIMBER Consortium |
|
URL |
http://www.limber.rl.ac.uk/ |
|
Contact Information |
Michael Wilson Project Manager m.d.wilson@rl.ac.uk |
|
Project Type |
Production, Development |
|
Project Dates |
1999-2001 |
|
Project Status |
Complete |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French, German, Spanish |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesaurus: ELSST |
|
Subject Coverage |
Social Sciences |
|
Description |
The goal of the LIMBER
Project is to develop tools to support multilingual access to data
distributed across the world wide web by using metadata and a multilingual
thesaurus of terms in a restricted vocabulary. |
|
Methodology |
LIMBER is using W3C's RDF language as the technology to
define metadata and the multilingual thesaurus, and FortH's SIS
multilingual thesaurus management system as the base technology
for the multilingual thesaurus server. The LIMBER tools will be generic, but
they will be demonstrated by enhancing the existing NESSTAR data access system with
multilingual capability, for the domain of social science. Another project FASTER is enhancing the categories of
data that NESSTAR can retrieve. LIMBER is using the UK Data
Archive's Hasset thesaurus of terms in social science as the
starting point for a multilingual thesaurus for social science in English,
French, Spanish and German. LIMBER is advancing the DDI metadata format for social
science data to support multilingual access as a demonstration of
multilingual access in the social science domain. |
|
User Interface |
Web Interface |
|
Relevant Standards |
RDF, DDI |
|
Notes |
LIMBER is an EU IST programme funded research and
development project. |
|
Citation |
Miller, Ken and Brian
Mathews. Having the right connections: the LIMBER Project. Journal of Digital
Information, vol. 1, no. 8 (Feb. 5, 2001),
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Miller/ |
|
Project Name |
MACS (Multilingual Access
to Subjects) |
|
Institution or Agency |
Conference of European
National Librarians. Project partners are: the Swiss National Library (SNL),
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the British Library (BL), and Die
Deutsche Bibliotek (DDB) |
|
URL |
http://laborix.kub.nl/prj/macs/ |
|
Contact Information |
Infolab B7 31 NL 5000 LE The http://laborix.kub.nl/prj/macs/demo/guestmail.php3 |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
In development |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French, German |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Subject headings lists Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) Répertoire d'autorité-matière
encylopédique et alphabétique unifié (RAMEAU) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
MACS aims to provide
multilingual subject access to library catalogues. MACS enables users to
simultaneously search the catalogues of the project's partner libraries in
the language of their choice (English, French, German). |
|
Methodology |
Equivalence links are
created between the three subject headings lists used in the partner
libraries' catalogs. The links are stored in the MACS Links Database. There
are two search interfaces for the Database. (1) The Search Interface: allows
users to browse headings and retrieve bibliographic records by using the
links established between the concepts. The search interface uses the Z39.50
protocol. (2) The Link Management Interface: enables the creation and
management of links between headings from the subject headings lists. |
|
User Interface |
Online Public Access
Catalog |
|
Relevant Standards |
NISO Z39.50 |
|
Notes |
The headings from the three
lists are analyzed to determine whether they are exact or partial matches, of
a simple or complex nature. The end result is neither a translation nor a new
thesaurus but a mapping of existing and widely used |
|
Citation |
Freyre, E. & Naudi, M.
(2003). MACS: Subject access across languages and networks. In I.C. McIlwaine
(Ed.), Subject retrieval in a networked environment. Proceedings of an IFLA
satellite meeting held in Dublin, Ohio, 14-16 August 2001 (pp. 3-10).
Munchen: K.G. Saur. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Project Name |
Merimee |
|
Institution or Agency |
|
|
URL |
|
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
|
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Operational? |
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesauri Le thesaurus de l'architecture Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) English Heritage Thesaurus |
|
Subject Coverage |
Cultural heritage, art,
architecture |
|
Description |
For the purpose of indexing
complexes, buildings and built structures,Le thesaurus de l'architecture was
created and mapped to AAT and the English Heritage Thesaurus. |
|
Methodology |
When mapping from Le
thesaurus de l'architecture to the other thesauri, Boolean operators
"AND" and "OR" are used to indicate equivalence in
addition to the exact equivalence types, exact and partial. |
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Doerr, M. (2001). Semantic
problems of thesaurus mapping. Journal of Digital Information, [Online], 1
(8). Available: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/io8/Doerr#Nr.52 Zeng and Chan (2004). |
|
Project Name |
MSC and Schedule 510 in DDC |
|
Institution or Agency |
University at |
|
URL |
|
|
Contact Information |
Iyer Hemalata University at hi651@albany.edu |
|
Project Type |
Research/prototype |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
|
|
Languages |
English |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Classification systems Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)
of the American Mathematical Society Dewey Decimal System (DDC) Schedule 510 |
|
Subject Coverage |
Mathematics |
|
Description |
This project maps the MSC
to the DDC 20, Schedule 510. |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Iyer, H. & Giguere, K.
(1995). Towards designing an expert system to map mathematics classificatory
structures. Knowledge Organization, 22, 141-147. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Project Name |
OCLC Terminology Services |
|
Institution or Agency |
OCLC Online Online Computer
Library Center, Inc. |
|
URL |
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/default.htm |
|
Contact Information |
Diane Vizine-Goetz Consulting Research
Scientist OCLC Online Online Computer
Library Center, Inc. 614-764-6084 |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Active, in development |
|
Language |
English |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesauri, classification
systems, subject heading lists Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) ERIC Thesaurus Guidelines on Subject Access to
Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc. (GSAFD) genre terms Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH) Library of Congress Children's Headings
(LCSHac) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) National Library of Medicine
Classification (NLMC) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General, Education, Literature,
Medicine |
|
Description |
The goal of this project is
to offer accessible, modular, web-based terminology services by providing
mappings from a term in one |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
MARC 21, MARC 21 XML,
Dublin Core, RDF (Other Project related standards can be found at: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/resources/standards.htm) |
|
Notes |
Selected vocabularies have
been made accessible for machine interaction and for downloading. E.g., the
GSAFD vocabulary with mappings is accessible using the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The GSAFD records are
accessible to users via a browser (http://alcme.oclc.org/gsafd/)
and to machines through the OAI-PMH Web services mechanism. |
|
Citation |
Vizine-Goetz, Diane (2004).
Terminology services: making knowledge organization schemes more accessible
to people and computers. OCLC Newsletter, 266 (October/November/December). Available:
http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/newsletters/oclc/2004/266/research.html |
|
Project Name |
Polish Project |
|
Institution or Agency |
Institute for Scientific,
Technical and Economic Information ( |
|
URL |
|
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Research |
|
Project Dates |
1992- |
|
Project Status |
|
|
Languages |
Multilingual: English,
Polish |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesauri, classification
systems, subject headings lists Polish Thematic Classification (PTC) Subject Heading Language (SHL) of the
National Library in Thesaurus of Common Topics (TCT) Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
The goal of this project
was to establish concordances for the four |
|
Methodology |
PTC was chosen as the
master language, whereas the others served as target languages. |
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Scibor, E. &
Tomasik-Beck, J. (1994). On the establishment of concordances between
indexing languages of universal or interdisciplinary scope (Polish
Experiences). Knowledge Organization, 21, 203-212. Zeng and Chan (2004). |
|
Name |
RDN Subject Portals Project
(SPP) |
|
Institution or agency |
Funded by JISC (Joint
Informations Systems Company), which is supported by UK institutions of
higher learning |
|
URL |
|
|
Contact information |
|
|
Project type |
Production |
|
Project dates |
Phase 1: 2001-2003; Phase
2: 2003-2004 |
|
Status of project |
Active |
|
Languages |
|
|
Knowledge organization
systems |
Thesauri, classification
systems, subject portals |
|
Subject Coverage |
|
|
Description |
Cataloging of online resources with subject
categories controlled by proprietary (?) hierarchical list. From the web
site, “The Resource Discovery Network is the UK’s free national gateway to
Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community.”
Currently eight subject portals are available: Altis (hospitality, leisure,
sport and tourism), Artifact (arts and creative industries), Biome (health
and life sciences), EEVL (engineering, mathematics and computing), GEsource
(geography and environment), Humbul (humanities), PSIgate (physical sciences) and SOSIG (social
sciences). The first phase of the project was to build a Z39.50 cross search
prototype at three RDN hubs, SOSIG, EEVL, and BIOME. The second phase adds
HUMBUL and PSIgate. |
|
Methodology |
Using SOSIG, the social
sciences portal as an example, the methodology is to select high quality
electronic resources, e.g. web sites, and catalog them. Keyword descriptors
provide subject access. In addition, each resource is assigned a subject
category, chosen from hierarchically presented terms. Source of the hierarchy
is not revealed. Terms probably assigned by internal staff (as opposed to
resource contributors) as cataloging record does not have a place to input
subject categories. Each portal has its own cataloging guidelines and
suggested thesauri. |
|
User interface |
Web based search interfaces
for each individual portal as well as a simple keyword search, from the
project home page, that searches across all portals. A search on “business”
retrieves over 3300 pages of brief descriptive records. |
|
Relevant standards |
Z39.50, various subject
thesauri |
|
Notes |
The first phase of the
project (2000-2001) was to build a Z39.50 cross search prototype at three RDN
hubs, SOSIG, EEVL, and BIOME. The second phase ads HUMBUL and PSIgate. Sites
are selected on the basis of selection criteria, cataloged following
consistent practices, and analyzed by people with expertise in the relevant
subject discipline. Links are checked daily in an automated process and all
entries are updated regularly by subject specialists. These are classified
using an appropriate controlled vocabulary. Basically, this appears to be
a cataloging project, with a Z39.50 search engine that does cross-portal
searching. |
|
Citation |
|
|
Name |
RENARDUS |
|
Institution or agency |
Renardus Consortium |
|
URL |
http://www.renardus.org |
|
Contact information |
(See Web site above) |
|
Project type |
Production |
|
Project dates |
|
|
Status of project |
Active |
|
Language |
Multilingual: English,
Dutch, French, Finnish, German |
|
Knowledge organization
systems (KOS) |
Classification system,
subject gateways Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
Renardus provides
integrated search and browse access to records from individual participating
subject gateway services across Europe. |
|
Methodology |
The Renardus Subject
Gateways map their local browsing structures and classification systems to
DDC. |
|
User interface |
Users can search for
Internet resources by browsing a subject hierarchy (based on DDC) or by searching
for specific terms in titles, subjects, description, creator and DDC. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Koch, T., Neuroth, H. &
Day, M. (2003). Renardus: Cross-browsing European subject gateways via a
common classification system (DDC). In I.C. McIlwaine (Ed.), Subject
retrieval in a networked environment. Proceedings of an IFLA satellite
meeting held in Dublin, Ohio, 14-16 August 2001 (pp. 25-33). Munchen: K.G.
Saur. Zeng & Chan (2004). |
|
Project Name |
ROADS (Resource
Organization and Discovery in Subject-based services) |
|
Institution or Agency |
UKOLN: the |
|
URL |
http://roads.opensource.ac.uk/ |
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Completed, no longer
active. |
|
Languages |
|
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Subject gateways |
|
Subject Coverage |
|
|
Description |
ROADS
is a set of software tools to enable the set up and maintenance of Web based
subject gateways. |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
ROADS
is a software tool-kit allowing gateway managers to pick and choose what
parts of the software they require whilst allowing the the integration of
other software according to requirement. |
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
The
ROADS project has now ended and the Web pages are no longer maintained. The
ROADS software is no longer available for download. It is suggested that
those interested in subject gateway tools should instead look at the Scout Portal Toolkit (http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/SPT/).
The original ROADS
manual is still available from the Web site. |
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
SAB and DDC |
|
Institution or Agency |
Swedish Royal Library |
|
URL |
|
|
Contact Information |
|
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
|
|
Languages |
Multilingual: Swedish,
English |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems (KOS) |
Classification systems Klassifikationssystem för svenska
bibliotek (SAB) Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
A concordance between SAB,
7th ed. and DDC, 21st ed. |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
|
|
Notes |
|
|
Citation |
Leth, P. (2001). Report
from Sweden: Concordance Dewey - SAB. Newsletter (IFLA Section on
Classification and Indexing), 24, 34. Zeng & Chang (2004). |
|
Project Name |
SALT (Standards-based
Access service to multi-lingual Lexicons and Terminologies) |
|
Institution or Agency |
Localization Industry
Standards Association (LISA) |
|
URL |
http://www.ttt.org/salt/ |
|
Contact Information |
Alan K. Melby Dept. of Linguistics 2129 JKHB 801-422-2144 akm@byu.edu |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
2001-2002 |
|
Project Status |
Inactive: Absorbed by the
TBX Project |
|
Languages |
Multilingual |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Terminology databases Machine translation
lexicons |
|
Subject Coverage |
General: multilingual lexicons
and terminologies |
|
Description |
SALT is a consortium of
academic, government, association, and commercial groups in the |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
XML, TMX, MARTIF (ISO
12200), OLIF, Unicode |
|
Notes |
An open source project |
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
Simple Knowledge Organization
System (SKOS) Mapping |
|
Institution or Agency |
W3C |
|
URL |
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/mapping/ |
|
Contact Information |
Alistair Miles E-Information, Business and
Information Technology Dept. CCLRC Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory Chilton, Didcot,
Oxfordshire QX11 0QX UK 44-1235-445440 a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk |
|
Project Type |
Development |
|
Project Dates |
|
|
Project Status |
Inactive |
|
Languages |
Multilingual |
|
Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Thesauri Classification systems Subject heading lists Taxonomies Terminologies Glossaries |
|
Subject Coverage |
General |
|
Description |
This project is an
application of the RDF that can be used to express mappings between concepts
from different KOS as an RDF graph. |
|
Methodology |
|
|
User Interface |
|
|
Relevant Standards |
RDF |
|
Notes |
Development of SKOS Mapping
was initiated by the Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe Project. |
|
Citation |
|
|
Project Name |
TBX (TermBase eXchange) |
|
Institution or Agency |
Localization Industry
Standards Association (LISA) |
|
URL |
http://www.lisa.org/tbx/ |
|
Contact Information |
Alan K. Melby Dept. of Linguistics 2129 JKHB 801-378-2144 akm@byu.edu |
|
Project Type |
Production |
|
Project Dates |
1987- |
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Project Status |
Current, in production:
Absorbed the SALT Project |
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Languages |
Multilingual |
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Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Terminology databases Machine translation
lexicons |
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Subject Coverage |
General: multilingual
lexicons and terminologies |
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Description |
TBX is an open XML-based
standard format for terminological data. This standard provides a number of
benefits so long as TBX files can be imported into and exported from most
software packages that include a terminological database. This capability
will greatly facilitate the flow of terminological information throughout the
information cycle both inside an organization and with outside service
providers. In addition, terminology that is made available to the general
public will become much more accessible to humans and more easily integrated
into existing terminological resources. |
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Methodology |
An organization requires a
translation, and supplies terminology for the translation. If the
organization’s terminology is in TBX, and the localization tool supports TBX,
then there is full reuse of the data. A document production system includes
multiple terminology-aware components. TBX can be used as the interchange
format between components. TBX facilitates information interchange among
termbases with different data models. |
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User Interface |
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Relevant Standards |
XML, TMX, MARTIF (ISO
12200), OLIF |
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Notes |
An open source project |
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Citation |
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Name |
UMLS (Unified Medical
Language System) |
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Institution or agency |
National Library of
Medicine |
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URL |
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umls.html |
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Contact information |
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Project type |
Production |
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Project dates |
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Status of project |
Operational |
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Language |
Multilingual |
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Knowledge organization
systems (KOS) |
Thesauri, classification
systems, subject heading lists, coding systems |
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Subject Coverage |
Medicine, Health,
Biological Sciences, and related areas |
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Description |
The UMLS consists of three
Knowledge Sources: the UMLS Metathesaurus, the SPECIALIST lexicon, and the
UMLS Semantic Network. The Metathesaurus is a database containing semantic
information about biomedical concepts, their various names, and the relationships
among them. |
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Methodology |
The Metathesaurus is built
from over 100 biomedical source vocabularies, some in multiple languages. The
2003 edition includes 875,255 concepts and 2.14 million concept names. The
UMLS Semantic Network is used for mapping index terms from different thesauri
through its 134 semantic types which provides a consistent categorization of
all concepts represented in the Metathesaurus. |
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User interface |
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Relevant Standards |
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Notes |
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Citation |
Zeng and Chan (2004) |
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Name |
VIAF (Virtual International
Authority File) |
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Institution or agency |
OCLC Online Computer
Library Center, Inc. |
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URL |
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/viaf/ |
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Contact information |
Edward T. O'Neill Consulting Research
Scientist OCLC Online Online Computer
Library Center, Inc 614-764-6074 oneill@oclc.org |
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Project type |
Research |
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Project dates |
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Status of project |
Active? |
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Language |
English |
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Knowledge organization
systems (KOS) |
Name authority files |
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Subject Coverage |
General |
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Description |
VIAF explores virtually
combining the name authority files of the Library of Congress (LC) and Die
Deutsche Bibliotek (DDB) into a single name authority file. |
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Methodology |
OCLC will use its proven
software to match and link authority records for personal names from DDB to
corresponding authority records from LC. |
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User interface |
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Relevant Standards |
MARC 21 |
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Notes |
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Citation |
Tillett, B. (2002). A
virtual international authority file. Presentation to the Giornata di studio sul
controllo di autorità nel Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale, Nov. 22, 2002.
http://www.iccu.sbn.it/TillettAF.ppt (accessed 4/1/2003) |
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Project Name |
VILIB (Virtual digital
LIBrary on a Europe-wide level) |
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Institution or Agency |
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URL |
http://www.islp.uni-koeln.de/aktuell/vilib/ |
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Contact Information |
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Seibt Research Group Information
Systems and Learning Processes dietrich.seibt@uni-koeln.de |
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Project Type |
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Project Dates |
1998-1999 |
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Project Status |
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Languages |
Multilingual: English,
French, German, Spanish |
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Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
CANAL/LS (Catalogue with natural multilingual Access
/ Linguistic server) |
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Subject Coverage |
General |
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Description |
The goal of the VILIB
project was to develop a system which enables a “cross-lingual” search of
catalog records and full-text documents in every library connected to the
Internet. |
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Methodology |
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User Interface |
Online Public Access
Catalog |
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Relevant Standards |
Z39.50 |
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Notes |
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Citation |
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Project Name |
WebDewey |
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Institution or Agency |
OCLC Online Online Computer
Library Center, Inc. |
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URL |
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/ |
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Contact Information |
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Project Type |
Production |
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Project Dates |
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Project Status |
Operational |
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Language |
English |
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Knowledge Organization
Systems ( |
Classification system and
subject heading list Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH) {Subject heading list} |
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Subject Coverage |
General |
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Description |
DDC numbers are linked to
LCSH headings in MARC records. |
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Methodology |
The linking is carried out
intellectually or statistically where feasible. |