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A list of resources that could be useful while working on the modelling of the RDF Phaidra Data Model.


Metadata

Application Profiles

RDF Application Profiles


User guidelines


Samvera Metadata Interest Group:

The scope of this group concentrates primarily on metadata as it relates to Samvera projects such as Hyrax, Avalon, Hyku, and migration to Fedora 4. Types of metadata for which the group has or intends to create recommendations include technical, structural, descriptive, and rights metadata.


Vocabularies

Where to find controlled vocabularies/thesauri

  • LOV (Linked Open Vocabularies) - The vocabulary collection is maintained by the LOV team of curators in charge of validating and inserting vocabularies in the LOV data base and assigning them a detailed review (updated on a yearly basis).
  • BARTOC - A database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related Registries, developed by the Basel University Library, Switzerland. BARTOC includes any kind of KOS from any subject area, in any language, any publication format, and any form of accessibility.
  • BARTOC Skosmos Browser - It provides access to SKOS concepts & vocabularies via BARTOC's SPARQL endpoint.
  • Open Metadata Registry - It provides services to developers and consumers of controlled vocabularies and is one of the first production deployments of the RDF-based Semantic Web Community's SKOS.
  • CESSDA Vocabulary Service - The service is provided by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). CESSDA Vocabulary Service enables users to discover, browse, and download controlled vocabularies in a variety of languages. The majority of the source (English) vocabularies included in the service have been created by the DDI Alliance. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioural, economic, and health sciences.
  • For a longer list, look into Appendix B of NISO (2017). Issues in vocabulary management: A technical report of the National Information Standards Organization, NISO TR-06-2017.

Criteria for selecting vocabularies for reuse or defining new terms


RDA Value Vocabularies


PBCore Controlled Vocabularies


Local controlled vocabularies in digital repositories

Local vocabulary managers

  • Cedar - Vocabulary manager based on iQvoc and used by University of Houston (USA).
  • GESIS - Vocabulary manager, based on iQvoc and maintained by GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, which provides thesauri and classifications with a focus on indexing and research in the social sciences.
  • UMTHES - Based on iQvoc, this thesaurus of the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) contains around 14,000 interlinked subject-specific and everyday language keywords. The join represents a structure in which a distinction is made between the more general headings and the more precise sub-terms (for example, tree <> conifer), but also terms related to one another are related (waste <> waste law). In addition, there are now 31,000 meaningfully set German words (synonyms) and 35,000 synonymous English terms (as of June 2017).
  • OpaqueNamespace - Linked data service based on Controlled Vocabulary Manager, an application originally developed for use in Oregon Digital.
  • AGROVOC - Multilingual thesaurus, based on SKOSMOS, covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
  • Finto - Finnish service for the publication and utilization of vocabularies, ontologies and classifications. It is based on SKOSMOS.
  • ACDH Vocabularies - Vocabulary repository service, based on SKOSMOS and developed by ACDH-ÖAW (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities - Austrian Academy of Sciences), that allows for collaborative maintenance and publication of vocabularies and taxonomies of any kind.
  • STW Thesaurus for Economics - World's most comprehensive bilingual thesaurus (almost 6,000 standardized subject headings and about 20,000 additional entry terms) for representing and searching for economics-related content. It has been developed by three institutions.
  • Heritage Data Vocabularies - National cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies made available online as Semantic Web resources by the AHRC funded SENESCHAL project.
  • LifeWatch Italy thesauri (see here the documentation)- Currently 5 vocabularies based on TemaTres: Aquatic Organisms Thesaurus, Phytoplankton Traits Thesaurus, Fish Traits Thesaurus, Zooplankton Traits Thesaurus, Alien Species Thesaurus.
  • ELSST Thesaurus - The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences based on SKOSMOS. It is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology and, increasingly, environmental science.

Local controlled vocabularies


List wiki SKOS Datasets


Ontologies

  • CPOV (Core Public Organization Vocabulary) - Data model for describing public organisations in the European Union.

  • Performed Music Ontology - An extension of the BIBFRAME ontology for describing performed music, both for mainstream and archival performed music collections. The ontology also includes six associated specialized vocabularies:• Audio Carrier vocabulary • Disc Cutting vocabulary • Encoding Format vocabulary • Medium Part Type vocabulary • Playing speed vocabulary • Tonal Center Vocabulary

  • Art and Rare Materials (ARM) BIBFRAME Ontology Extensions - BIBFRAME extension ontologies (released in 2018) for modeling bibliographic metadata in the art and rare materials domains. These extensions include a core module and three modularized ontologies, i.e. awards, custodial history, and measurements. To address specific descriptive concerns, the group has also released a set of controlled vocabularies for arrangement of physical objects (e.g., rolled and unrolled), origin (e.g., of titles), status (e.g., of identifiers), typefaces, and handwriting types.


Digital repositories registries

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