Vocabulary & Ontology for Library Linked Data

The vocabulary list is reorganized from Linked Open Vocabulary ; W3C Incubator Group Report (2011); the Open Metadata Registry (formerly the NSDL Registry); and some others. Note that W3C report uses two types of grouping (i.e. Value Vocabularies and Metadata Element Sets ) which are similar to the Library Community who uses Controlled Vocabularies and Metadata Schemata for classification. The list below is grouped in two types: the new emerging developments for linked open data (LOD) as well as the traditional type in LAM (Library, Archive and Museum). Each main type has sub-types based on data resource type, i.e. General for GLAM, Library/bibliography (e.g. text based data mainly), and Cultural Heritage and Museum (e.g. audio, cartographic, images, cultural/museum objects, etc.)

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LOD: General for GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, Museum)

1. DAIA: Document Availability Information Ontology
2. Data Catalog Vocabulary (W3C:2013)
3. Dataset Catalog Vocabulary (2009)
4. DCMI: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Metadata Terms
5. DCMI Collection Description Community
6. DiLEO: Digital Library Evaluation Ontology
7. Directory Schema (2005)
8. EAC-CPF: Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families
9. EAD: Encoded Archival Description
10. EDM: Europeana Data Model
11. EPrints Ontology
12. Finnish Ontology Library Service ONKI
13. GISAD: General International Standard Archival Description
14. Linked Data Vocabularies for Cultural Heritage
15. LOCAH RDF Vocabulary
16. Library of Congress Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (LC Children's Subject Headings/ LC Genre/Form Terms / LC Name Authority File/ LC Subject Headings/ MARC Countries/ MARC Geographic Areas/ Thesaurus for Graphic Materials/ ISO639 Languages/ MARC Languages/ MARC Relators)/Code List for Cultural Heritage Organizations (new)
17. LODLAM Pattern
18. MADS/RDF: Metadata Authority Description Schema in RDF
19. MODS/RDF: Metadata Object Description Schema in RDF
20. MARC21: MAchine-Readable Cataloging
21. OAI-ORE: Open Archives Initiative － Object Reuse and Exchange
22. OAI ORE terms vocabularyPRONOM (2011)
23. PREMIS: Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Ontology (Library of Congress/LC)
24. R4R: Relations for Reusing (R4R) Ontology
25. RSLP: Research Support Libraries Programme Collection Description Schema
26. SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organization System RDF Schema
27. SKOS-XL: SKOS eXtension for Labels
28. SNaP Ontologies: Simple News and Press Ontologies
29. The Pattern Ontology
30. Works, licences, derivatives and dependencies (W3C: SWAP)

• Thesauri General: Wordnet (related projects; RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet (W3C); Wordnet 3.0 in RDF) ; GeoNames (in RDF): AGROVOC (LOD); Eurovoc

• Related General: DBpedia; Freebase; Creative Commons (CC) License set; Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (CC REL); MARC List for Countries; MARC List for Languages; MARC List for Geographic Areas; Friend of a Friend (FOAF); Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets (VoID); Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer (UMBEL) Vocabulary; Lexvo.org ontology; Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF); Open Provenance Model (OPM) ; W3C Provenance Model (PROV); Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) ; Schema.org

LOD: Library/bibliography/citation

1. BIBO: Bibliographic Ontology
2. BibTeX ontology
3. CiTO: Citation Type Ontology
4. GND Ontology (2012: GND stands for "Gemeinsame Normdatei" (Integrated Authority File)
5. IFLA: The International Federation of Library Associations Lists ( ISBD / FRBRer/ FRAD / FRSAD/ UNIMARC) ; FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records / Library (final report, 2008); FRBRoo Model (version 2.0, encoded in RDFS, [6-6-2013])
6. Library extension of schema.org (2012: OCLC)
7. JATS: The Standard: JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, version 1.0 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012)*
8. lobid vocab
9. New York Times subject headings
10. Norwegian translation of MeSH
11. RDA: Resource Description and Access Vocabularies
12. SALT Document Ontology: model the content of scientific publications at different granularity levels.
13. SwetoDblp Ontology of Computer Science Publications
14. SWRC: Semantic Web for Research Communities

LOD: Cultural Heritage/Museum

1. AAT in LOD: the SPARQL end-point of vocab.getty.edu (beta)
2. Archival collections ontology
3. Programmes ontology (BBC)
4. CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) RDF
5. Curate Ontology (2012) : an ontology for describing museum narratives
6. ICONCLASS as Linked Open Data
7. SAMM ontology (2013): based on EDM and CIDOC CRM
8. ma-ont(2012): Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 (W3C)
9. Music Ontology

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LAM: General

1. ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
2. DCMI: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (1999); DC Metadata Term (2010)
3. DDC: Dewey Decimal Classification System
4. ESE: Europeana Semantic Elements
5. GETTY: GETTY vocabulary / Some mappings by GETTY
6. ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies
7. TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
8. UDC: The Universal Decimal Classification
9. VIAF: Virtual International Authority File

• Thesauri: STW Thesaurus for Economics; Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) thesaurus; Fisheries Reference Metadata; National Agricultural Library's Agriculture Thesaurus and Glossary; Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
• More General: Preservation vocabularies from LoC ( Preservation Events; Preservation Level Role)

LAM: Library/bibliography

1. EAD: Encoded Archival Description / (Library of Congress/LC)/XML formats/tree structure
2. LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH: 1898); in 2008 LCSH are published as LOD.
3. MARC: MAchine-Readable Cataloging/MARC Standard (Library of Congress/LC:1999) :flat structure for displaying records
4. MeSH : Medical Subject Headings
5. METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard / (Library of Congress/LC)
6. MODS: Metadata Object Description Schema / (Library of Congress/LC)
7. NDLSH: National Diet Library List of Subject Headings (NDLSH)
8. RAMEAU/SKOS/ Répertoire d'Autorité-Matière Encyclopédique et Alphabétique Unifié (RAMEAU) (French approach in subject headings cataloging as linked data 2012)
9. SWD: Schlagwortnormdatei/ Subject Headings Authority File of the German National Library

LAM: Cultural Heritage/Museum

1. AAT: Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)
2. AFS ET: American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus
3. CCO Commons: Cataloging Cultural Objects Commons*
4. CDWA: Categories for the Description of Works of Art ((Getty))
5. CHIN Humanities Data Dictionary: Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Humanities Data Dictionary*
6. CIDOC-CRM: CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (2003-)
7. CIMI: Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information
8. EBU P/Meta Semantic Metadata Schema
9. Iconclass: Description and retrieval of subjects represented in images
10. LIDO: Lightweight Information Describing Objects schema of ATHENA
11. object ID
12. PBCore: Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary
13. SPECTRUM: the UK Museum Collections Management Standard
14. TGM: Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (Library of Congress/LC)
15. ULAN: Getty Union List of Artist Names (Getty)
16. VRA: Visual Resources Association CORE (Library of Congress/LC)

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Citation Information:
Andrea Wei-Ching Huang (2013) Vocabulary and Ontology for Library Linked Data. 
URL= http://andrea-index.blogspot.tw/2013/07/vocabulary-ontology-for-library-linked_17.html

Last updated*: 2015-05-13

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