NKOS Thesaurus Registry Update

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NKOS Thesaurus Registry Update

• Gail Hodge
• Information International Associates, Inc.
• NKOS Workshop, August 14, 1999

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Thesaurus Registry Background

• Working group established based on discussions at
  1998 workshop
• Data elements needed to describe vocabulary
  resources (KOS)
• Based on previous work by Linda Hill and Mike
  Raugh
• Draft issued November 1998

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Biodiversity Vocabulary Pilot

• Biological Resources Division (BRD) and the
  National Biological Information Infrastructure
  (NBII)
• Part of the background effort to build CERES/BRD
  vocabulary for biodiversity and ecosystem science
• Developed Access database to the draft registry
  standard

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Lessons Learned

• Works better for thesauri than for other
  vocabularies
• Sometimes difficult for cataloger to complete the
  fields because need to know more in-depth
  information
• Benefit by having owner/creators do the
  registration
• Date needed to be changed to be Y2K compliant

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Next Steps for BRD

• BRD will modify Access database and continue
  development of its catalog
• Make it available via the NBII
• Reconcile the standard with the NBII (FGDC based)
  metadata standard so the resources can be
  accessed by the CHM search engine

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Suggested Next Steps for the WG

• Develop taxonomy for vocabularies
• Continue reconciliation of the standard elements
  with other efforts at registration
• Testing of draft by NKOS members
• Perhaps approach NISO about hosting a review of
  the results