Laura:
There's an open registry available at http://metadataregistry.org -- it
includes vocabulary development tools that allow you to build and
maintain an openly available vocabulary, complete with URIs and all.
Feel free to take a look, try out the Sandbox (linked from the front
page), and ask questions.
Regards,
Diane
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Diane I. Hillmann
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Information Institute of Syracuse
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Laura Akerman wrote:
> I'm looking at how to set up one or more local (and idiosyncratic)
> vocabularies that could be high-level subject or "genre" (best element
> that fits) vocabularies, to describe special groupings we would want
> (some guessed at examples, "yellow-back collection" "pamphlets by
> African American authors" "art history web resources"). These might
> be for internal use or public (e.g. website naviation of collections).
>
> We'd like to be able to identify which local vocabularies we're using
> in our MODS and MARC records. In MARC, the specification says to use
> a term from the MARC Code list in subfield 2; the only one available
> to us is "local". The MODS guidelines for authority attribute for
> both subject and genre suggest using the MARC Code lists but don't
> prescribe it.
>
> We'd like to go beyond "local" so we can code more than one local
> vocabulary.
> Am thinking about inventing a convention, something like , e.g.,
> <mods:genre authority="local GEU projectvocab"> to assign our own
> abbreviation or label for a local vocabulary.
> Has anyone else felt the need to do something like this, or tried
> it... do you think this strategy would work, see any problems with it,
> or have suggestions for an alternative strategy?
>
> Beyond my immediate need: would a change in either the conventions for
> use of the MARC codes for genre or subject, or the data structure to
> permit identifying institution and local vocabulary code, be a good
> thing?
>
> Thanks in advance for advice,
>
> Laura
>
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