Metadata and Digital Repositories

references - vocabularies, taxonomies and thesauri

Projects

HIgh Level Thesaurus (HILT)
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/AboutHILT/index.html
Recommendation report now out!

Scottish electronic Staff Development Library (SeSDL)
http://www.sesdl.scotcit.ac.uk/
This project has developed an Educational taxonomy.

Standards-based Access to multilingual Lexicons and Terminologies (SALT)
http://www.loria.fr/projets/SALT/
An EU Fifth Framework project.

Thesauri

American Society of Indexers: Thesauri Online
http://www.asindexing.org/site/thesonet.shtml
A page containing links to other thesauri.

British Education Thesaurus/Index
http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~beiwww/beil.html

Controlled Vocabularies Resource Guide
http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~middletm/cont_voc.html
This page provides links to examples of thesauri and to classification schemes. It also provides links to descriptive and critical material about such descriptions.

European Education Thesaurus (EET)
http://www.eurydice.org/TeeForm/FrameSet_EN.htm

Lexical and Classification Resources
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/lex/
Contains links to dictionaries, thesauri, classification schemes, and information about such schemes. Has a focus on conservation/preservation issues.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Thesaurus
http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/

About taxonomies, vocabularies, ontologies and thesauri

Boxes and Arrows
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/
Website devoted to information architecture, many article on controlled vocabularies

American Society of Indexers: How do I build a thesaurus?
http://www.asindexing.org/site/thesbuild.shtml

CENDI Presentations Archive
http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pres_arc.html Educational level
CENDI is an inter-agency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information Managers from ten major programs in nine U.S. Federal Agencies.

Chris Welty - Ontology Publications
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/faculty/welty/papers/

Miller, Paul (2001) Architects of the Information Age, Ariadne Issue 29
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/miller/intro.html
This article describes four main areas where controlled vocabularies are needed in the UK: audience groupings, subject terms, resource type and geography.

Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS)
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/

Ontology Inference Layer
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/
The Ontology Inference Layer OIL is a proposal for a web-based representation and inference layer for ontologies

Letson, Russel (2001) Taxonomies put Content in Context, Transform Magazine, December 2001.
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2001/12/tfm0112f1.shtml
Particularly good definitions of "taxonomy" and "ontology".

Thesaurus Construction
http://instruct.uwo.ca/gplis/677/thesaur/main00.htm
An introductory tutorial on thesaurus construction.

What is an Ontology?
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

Willpower Information: information management consultants
http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/
This site contains information on thesauris and vocabulary control as one of a number information management related areas of interest.

Controlled Vocabularies in Use

Educational Level vocabularies

Resource Type vocabularies

RDN Resource Types
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/cat-guide/types/