SKOS Implementation: Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)

SKOS VOCABULARY IMPLEMENTATION

Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)

 

The Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) provides a controlled vocabulary of
terms used in Australian and New Zealand schools. It encompasses all
subject areas as well as terms describing educational and administrative
processes. The thesaurus links non-preferred terms to curriculum terms.
It also relates terms in a browsable structure.

 

Project website: http://scot.curriculum.edu.au

Size: Over 10 000 terms

Established: 2002

 

Publisher:  Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, Australia

 

Contacts: Steve Sunter & Les Kneebone scot@curriculum.edu.au

 

 

SKOS constructs used:

    Concept

    topConceptOf

 

    prefLabel

    altLabel

    hiddenLabel

 

    changeNote

    historyNote

 

    broader

    narrower

    related

 

Language: English
[Currently testing multilingual support]

 

All concepts are displayed in sentence case.  For example:

*         Frill necked lizards 

*         After-school care

*         Business and enterprise

 

Plan to later map between vocabularies.

 

Entire SKOS file (RDF/XML) can be downloaded in .zip format (227K)

[Publicly available - requires registration]

 

 

WEB SERVICE

Machine-centred Web service including test facility for human use.

Uses SOAP protocol. Can query data by identifier, concept labels, top
concept or date range.

Default data output format is SKOS RDF/XML.

 

http://scotws.curriculum.edu.au:8080/ScotWs/
[Publicly available - requires registration]

 

SOFTWARE - Cataloguing tool

Human-centred search tool. Executes user queries via SKOS Web service.
Read only.

http://scot.curriculum.edu.au

[Publicly available - requires registration]