Intro
Types of Vocabularies
Activities with TS
Review of current TS activity
Conclusion
Having .
Terminology Services (TS) are a set of services that present and apply vocabularies, both controlled and uncontrolled, including their member terms, concepts and relationships (p. 6; 1.2).
This is done for purposes of searching, browsing, discovery, translation, mapping, semantic reasoning, subject indexing and classification, harvesting, alerting, etc.
TS can be m2m or interactive, user-facing services and can be applied at all stages of the search process (p. 6 ... 7; 1.2).
Vocabularies differ in their design and use, by:
Vocabularies by structure
Vocabularies by purpose
Named entity authority and disambiguation services
Social tagging and folksonomies — Josh
Terminology registries
Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) links thousands of Personennamendatei (PND) to biographical articles in Wikipedia (press release).
Flamenco faceted browsing on the web
A news note in CCQ 42 (1) 2006 alerts us to a press release dated 3 Aug 2005 reporting on Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) linking thousands of personal name authorities to biographical articles in the German-language version of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia gains "a highly structured authoritative cross-referencing structure for access to its biographies; DDB obtains new visibility and a means of bringing new patrons to its catalog" (146).
LEAF Project: "developing a model architecture for collecting, harvesting, linking of, and providing access to existing local or naitonal name authority data, independent from their creation in libraries, archives, museums, or other institutions and independent from national differences" (Weber, 227). Usable for/by everyone. Access via ftp, Z39.50, OAI and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol [XML])
VIAF Project: OCLC, LOC, DDB : explores virtually combining the name authority files of both institutions into a single name authority service.
Beneifts:
Distributed vs. Centralized: Independent vs. Union. "Physcical" union vs. a virtual union
VIAF: OCLC matching algorithms to compare LCNAF (about 5M) and DDB's PNF (about 1M).
An article in LRTS (Library Resources & Technical Services), Volume 50, No. 3 (July 2006) by Jenny Toves, Ed O'Neill, and Thom Hickey.
The Getty Union List of Artist Names
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
ULAN: Ovile Master
TGN: Mali. Notice hiearchy. Notice view physical features versus political entities.
AAT, ULAN, TGN are all available for download and licensing. Available in MARC, XML and relational tables. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/download.html
Terminology Services (TS) are a set of services that present and apply vocabularies, both controlled and uncontrolled, including their member terms, concepts and relationships (p. 6; 1.2).
This is done for purposes of searching, browsing, discovery, translation, mapping, semantic reasoning, subject indexing and classification, harvesting, alerting, etc.
TS can be m2m or interactive, user-facing services and can be applied at all stages of the search process (p. 6 ... 7; 1.2).