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Terminology Services : Terminologies Services Pilot

OCLC Terminologies Services Pilot

OCLC is exploring a service that provides access to multiple controlled vocabularies for libraries, museums, and archives to create consistent metadata for their collections.  Selected mappings between vocabularies are provided to assist in relating terminology.  The service would provide one-stop access to terminology resources and would be accessible through any web-based metadata editor.  For more information about the pilot see the project description and its terms and conditions of use. 

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Type Vocabulary

The DCMI Type Vocabulary provides a general, cross-domain list of approved terms that may be used as values to identify the genre of a resource. 

The source file is available on the DCMI Web site.  Copyright ©2004 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.  All Rights Reserved.  Used with permission. 

Our version of the DCMI Type vocabulary has been modified to include intra-file links for associated terms and links to the DCMI Web site. 

Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. (GSAFD), MARC 21 authority records

Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc., 2nd edition, was published in 2000 by the American Library Association.  The Guidelines constitute a recommendation for national standard practice in the provision of genre and subject access to individual works of fiction, drama, poetry, humor, and folklore in all formats.  Machine-readable authority records have been created by Northwestern University for the form/genre headings in chapter 1 of GSAFD. 

The source file is available on the Northwestern University's GSAFD Web site.  The MARC 21 file is named gsafd.mrc.  Used with permission. 

Our version of the GSAFD vocabulary has been modified to include intra-file links for associated terms and mappings to the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the Library of Congress Subject Headings: Annotated Card Program, AC Subject Headings. 

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) 2005 vocabulary, MARC 21 authority records

The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine and used for indexing, cataloging, and searching for biomedical and health-related information and documents. 

The source file is available on the National Library of Medicine's Web site. 

Our version of the MeSH® 2005 vocabulary has been modified to include intra-file links for associated terms and links to the MeSH® browser and MeSH® tree structures. 

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) 2005 sample, MARC 21 authority records

The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine and used for indexing, cataloging, and searching for biomedical and health-related information and documents. 

The source file is available on the National Library of Medicine's Web site. 

Our version of the MeSH® 2005 sample has been modified to include intra-file links for associated terms and links to the MeSH® browser and MeSH® tree structures. 

Newspaper Genre List (NGL)

The Newspaper Genre List is a list of standardized terms that may be used to designate the genre of a newspaper.  The perspective and scope of the list reflects the types of papers cataloged by members of the United States Newspaper Program. 

The source file is available on the University of Washington's Web site.  Used with permission. 

Our version of the Newspaper Genre List has been modified to include intra-file links for associated terms and mappings to the Library of Congress Subject Headings. 

Union List of Artist Names® (ULAN) sample, MARC 21 authority records

The Union List of Artist Names® (ULAN) is a controlled vocabulary containing names and other information about artists. 

The source file is available on the Getty's Web site.  Used with permission. 

Our version of the ULAN sample has been modified to include intra-file links for associated terms and links to the Getty's online information. 

Please send comments or questions to: TSpilot@oclc.org.