Leverage Vocabularies for Effective Discovery Program

Quick facts

Total projects: 4

Problem statement: Cultural heritage, bibliographic, and archival communities use different terminologies to provide subject access to the materials and objects they describe. The controlled vocabularies may not be recognized by very diverse user communities. Subject analysis is at the work rather than the item level and could be shared across both domains and the user communities research institutions serve.

Impact: Moving resources identifying "people, places, and things" to the network level can have tremendous impact on our various communities.

Projects

• Prototype an Identities Resource for users wherever they are
• Serve on Encoded Archival Context Working Group to influence the proposed EAC standard for usability and application in existing resources
• Lead an effort to upgrade the LC/NACO Authority File with non-Latin alternate names
• Write and publish a paper on the relationship(s) between folksonomies and structured vocabularies