RE: Some remaining questions about the use case document

Useful pointers, John.  Important, yet still missing, info:

- How do users interact with the vocabulary (i.e. how do they select their desired term(s) from the N00,000+ that are in the vocabulary)? In particular UI/selection/suggestion/search techniques.

- How are the vocabularies maintained?  i.e. with 100,000 entries what processes are used to identify which terms need to be reviewed/updated/merged/deprecated etc. and what metadata do such processes generate?  If SIMILE is to offer facilities for vocabulary maintenance, what function points are likely to be required?  

- How are the vocabularies today shared across systems (i.e. what transfer formats are used)?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John S. Erickson [mailto:john.erickson@hp.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:25 PM
> To: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Some remaining questions about the use case document
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> > Visual Image Support:
> >
> > - How do the Library of Congress or Getty deal with their large 
> > controlled vocabularies? Any idea about the type of user interface 
> > used?
> 
> JSE: A bit of information on this is at:
> 
http://www.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html

Some technical information on each collection by original format type, preserved format type and division is at:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/digcols.html

Getty provides a bit more information, including resources like their "metadata crosswalk"

http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.html

OR

http://purl.oclc.org/NET/Getty_MD_Crosswalk

John

Received on Thursday, 8 May 2003 16:27:26 UTC