Terminologies & Thesauri - Tactics from the Trenches

MODELS 1111 January 2000

David KayStrategic Development Director

FDI

Controlled Vocabularies

One step beyond Tagging - one step too far

Unrealistically dictatorial Rooted in self-preservation

but undeniably …. A recurring nightmare

FDI Project Experiences

Organisation & Project Domain LDS - FamilySearch site Family

History NARA - Next NAIL site Nat’l Archive JISC - NNDP Demonstrator Cross

Archives Essex Libraries - Seamless Community

Info

learndirect - Learning Directory Education

Controlled Vocabulary Comparisons

Project GeographicLocators

SubjectTerms

NameAuthority

ResourceType

LDSFamily Search

LDS ownGazeteer

(seeResource Type)

‘Standardised’Surnames

Essential

NARANAIL

GettyTGN

NARA ownhierarchy

NARA and LC NAF

Yes

JISCNNDP

Investigated –not implemented

Sub-c’teeown trial list

Indexed as found -

EssexSeamless

County politicalbreakdown

Channels and own LIFE Thes

(Organisationbased)

Essential

learndirectCourse Direct’ry

Gazeteer(Source?)

DfEESuperClass

(Organisationbased)

All records arecourses

Suggested Themes

Geographic - clear case but local work to undo

Subject - desire for high level terms despite diversity by specialism

Name - approaches seem domain specific

Resource Type - open to influence

Others? - Level, Media, ...

Why interfere?1- Precision Getty, LC, etc have it covered Search precision is therefore achievable

but what about ... Cross searching? Cross domain? the UK plc perspective?

The Learning Portal - Sample Service Modelv1.0; 3 January 2000

Shared Classification

Level Type Location Topic

Learning Portal Home Page

Programmatic Interface for other services

NGfL

HE

Mall

RDN

FE Repository

learn direct

Work Bank

UKEL

SCRAN

Why interfere?2 - Site & Portal Navigation Web value-added is considerable … Pre-search filtering - see NNDP & elib3 CLDs

Terminologies are searchable in their own right - see LDS & NARA

They open up the integration of secondary resources - see LDS, NARA & PRO

Figure E:NNDP User Interface - Flow of Control

NNDP Home Page

SelectSubjects

SelectRegion

Archive Site

Details

EnterSearch

Hit List(Brief Details)

Full RecordLast

Selection

Full RecordCurrent

Selection

Full RecordNext inHit List

WebSites

WebHome Pages

•Access Points•Operators•Filter by Level

•Filter by Target•Select Hits•Select Parents*Sort

USERACCESS

DirectRoute

1

2 3

4 A

5

6

78 9

B

Note: At any stage theuser can go back a levelor select options from themenu ribbon (eg Help,Home, Search)

* Gateway Sort notimplemented in NNDP.

PROCAT User Search Relationships

SUPPLEMENTARYFINDING AID

FULL TEXT

POPULARSEARCH

USERSAVED

SEARCH USERSAVED

BOOKMARK

INTERESTCATEGORY

PROCAT

Catalogue

SUBJECT1.

PLACE2. PERSONAL

NAME

3.

5. 6.

9.

7.

8.

Figure 10

4.

CORPORATE NAME

10

11

PROCAT Retrieval Spectrum

KEYWORDS

RetrieveANYCases

AUTHORITYTERMS

RetrieveSUBSTANTIVE

Cases

POPULARSEARCHES

RetrieveTHEMATICExamples

AND these

AND these

USERSEARCHES

RetrieveREFINEDResults

AND

AND

AND

Figure 11

LOW FOCUS HIGH FOCUS

FHLC CD Catalog - APPLICATION FRAMEWORK (AF)

Film Notes

Source Guide

Title Searchvia API

TITLE SEARCHES

Call No

14Title

15Author

16

Surname

17Subject(Topic)

18Locality

19 Key Word

20 Boolean Contribution

21 22

Title Brief Details23

MonoGraphs

Manuscripts

Serials

Title Full Details24

AuthorSearch

1

Mono Graphs

Manuscripts

Titles

Author Brief

2

Author Full

3

9 FilmNumberSearch

10 Film Item Summary Brief

26SecondarySearches

25

Research Outline Search

11

12Research Outline Brief

13 Research OutlineDocument

Locality Search

4

Locality Brief

5

LocalityFull

6 GeogTracings

723a 23b 23c

24a 24b 24cUTILITIES

27 Help - On Line28 Help - Query29 Bookmark - Create

30 Bookmark - Recall

31 Print

32a Bookmark - Order

31a Bookmark - Print

32 OrderPERSISTENT