Type of Resource: Project
Author: Vanda Broughton, Principle Investigator
Title: Facet Analytical Theory in Managing Knowledge Structures for Humanities
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Broad classification of knowledge, Classification scheme, Universal decimal
Description: This site demonstrates how facet analytical theory (FAT) is used to design a new classification for the humanities; the macrostructure of the new classification system is available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/macrostructure.htm and is based on the Broad System of Ordering (BSO), which is a machine-held classification and freely available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/bso/about.htm. This project is now ended, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/news.htm.
Rights:
Copyright: ©UCL 2003
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Project
Author: High-Level Thesaurus (HILT)
Title: A-Z of Thesauri
Location/Identifier: URL: http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Sources/thesauri.html
Subject: Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies), Information Organization-Indexing, Online library catalogs--Subject access
Keyword: Thesauri, Libraries, Museums, Archives, bibliographic databases
Description: The High-Level Thesaurus was a one-year project to study and report on the problem of cross-searching and browsing by subject across a range of communities, services, and service or resource types. A-Z of Thesauri is one resource created in support of the project.
Rights:
Copyright: © HILT
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers; Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Project
Author:
Title: The Nordic Metadata Projects
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/meta/
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Dublin Core
Description: The Nordic Metadata Project I created basic element of a metadata production and utilizawtion system based on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. The Nordic Metadata project II activities related to the development of XML/RDF syntax and creation of a new Dublin Core, tentatively called Dublin Core 2.0, creation of a Dublin Core convertor (DC to MARC, both US MARC and Nordic MARC from DC source data), and support tools such as a DC template guide.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of last modification: 2000-02-21
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Project
Author: OCLC
Title: OCLC Office of Research - Projects
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/knowledge_organization.htm
Subject: Information organization, Classification, Subject Cataloging
Keyword: Knowledge organization, Automatic classification, Faceted application, Subject terminology, Classification schemes
Description: OCLC researchers engage many projects concerned with extending the application of classification schemes and controlled vocabularies through various algorithmic methods. These projects include Automatic Classification Research, FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), Information Visualization, Knowledge Organization Research, and Scorpion.
Rights:
 Copyright: ©2004 OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Project
Author: Michael Day
Title: ROADS
Location/Identifier: URL: http://roads.opensource.ac.uk/
Subject: Information organization, Classification, Subject Cataloging
Keyword: User-oriented subject access
Description: "ROADS stands for Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services. The overall objective of the ROADS project was to design and implement a user-oriented resource discovery system. It investigated the creation, collection and distribution of resource descriptions, to provide a transparent means of searching for, and using resources."
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

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