ScOT Subject access
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Education Services Australia
Les KneeboneProject manager – Schools Online Thesaurus
scot.esa.edu.au
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SCIS subject headings
• Rationale
• Reference structures
• Getting the message out about value of authority files
• Updates and usability of authority files
• Future
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ScOT in SCIS project
“Schools of the future will most likely move to unified discovery systems which will make a standardised approach to resource subject
description very desirable for schools – keyword searching is rapidly becoming the pre-eminent means of resource retrieval”
ScOT in SCIS project, 2006
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ScOT overview
Warrant
Curriculum
Identifiers
Structure
Multilingual
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ScOT in Australian curriculum
ScOT is used to describe Australian Curriculum
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Content
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Curriculum123
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Search for content with high correlation of SCOT
tags for 123
Alignment between resources and curriculum may be inferred via ScOT
Aligning resources
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Identifiers
Managing concepts, not ‘terms’
Identifiers are http and resolvable
Concepts may be dereferenced from resources
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http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2458
Ecosystems
Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Bioindicators; Biomes; Competition (Ecology); Ecological niches; Ecological succession; Food webs; Habitats; Land degradation; Native species; Populations (Ecology); Symbiosis
Ecology
Use for resources about communities of living organisms interacting with each other and with their environment, including the processes that take place.
生態系 ; 生态系统 ; Mātauranga taupuhi kaiao; Ekosistem; بيئي Ökosystem; Οικοσύστημα; Ecosistema; 생태계 ;نظام ; Hệ
sinh thái; Ekosistem; Ecosistema; पा�रि�स्थि�तिक �त्र; Écosystème
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85040752#concept
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ecosystem
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Discussion
How can school library systems realise the benefits of ScOT for curriculum alignment, multilingual subject access and search?
Option 1
Transition from use of SCIS subject headings to ScOT terms
Option 2
Manage and display both SCIS subject headings AND ScOT terms in a meaningful way for users