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Title: Authorities and Vocabularies, LCs New SKOSBased Service
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Authorities and Vocabularies, LCs New SKOS-Based
Service
- Janis L. Young
- Cataloging Policy Specialist
- Policy and Standards Division
- Library of Congress
- jayo_at_loc.gov
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SKOS
- Simple Knowledge Organization System
- Provides a model for expressing the basic
structure and content of concept schemes such as
thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading
lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other
similar types of controlled vocabularySKOS
Primer
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SKOS
- Based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- Resources can be exchanged between software
applications and published on the Web - Interconnects data on the Web, helping create the
Semantic Web
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- URL id.loc.gov
- Replaces lcsh.info
- Intent To provide human and programmatic access
to commonly found standards and vocabularies
developed by LC
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- LCSH is the first offering
- Subject headings
- Genre/form headings
- Childrens subject headings
- Subdivision records
- Validation records
- Provides links from LCSH headings to RAMEAU
headings
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Authorities and vocabularies
- To come
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM)
- MARC geographic area codes
- MARC language codes
- MARC relator codes
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- Benefits
- Servers can download entire controlled
vocabularies and the values within them, in
multiple formats - Available at no cost
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- Human end-users can search and view individual
headings and data elements and view - Details of the record
- Visualization
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- URL for specific LCSH records
- id.loc.gov/authorities/LCCN
- id.loc.gov/authorities/sh8508803
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- Current search parameters
- Headings containing words comprising three
characters or less are not searchable - Searching is keyword in heading
- UFs must be searched with the Known Label
Retrieval method, e.g. - id.loc.gov/authorities/label/Cinema
- Retain spaces and punctuation
- Do not truncate
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- Current display parameters
- Terms labeled as BTs may be facets instead
- World War, 1939-1945Personal narratives
- BT World War, 1939-1945
- Terms with more than 20 semantic relationships
cannot be visualized
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- Contact information
- Content of site
- Libby Dechman, edec_at_loc.gov
- Technical questions
- Larry Dixson, ldix_at_loc.gov
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Authorities and Vocabularies
- A comment form and discussion list are available
at http//id.loc.gov/authorities/contact.html
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