Research related resources

The purpose of this page is to hold the list of resources used, revisited and observed during our research. Its main objective is to serve as project bookmark and reminder rather than a quality resource selection.

Fora


AHBR - Art and Humanities Research Board
http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/

Bliss Classification Association
http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/bca/bcahome.htm

CRG - Classification Research Group
[no web page available]

DNER - The Distributed National Electronic Resource
http://www.dner.ac.uk/

DCMI - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://www.dublincore.org/

FISH - Forum on Information Standards in Heritage
http://www.mda.org.uk/fish/index.htm

H-Net - Humanities and Social Sciences Online
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/

ISKO - International Society for Knowledge Organization
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/orgs/isko/

NKOS -Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/

OAI - Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/

RDN - Resource Discovery Network
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/

SemanticWeb.org - The Semantic Web Community Portal
http://www.semanticweb.org/

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
http://trec.nist.gov/

W3C Semantic Web activity
http://www.w3c.org/2001/sw/

Web Ontology Working Group
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/

 

Related projects


 

FACET Project - Thesaurus based access to multimedia collections: faceted retrieval tools
http://web.glam.ac.uk/schools/soc/research/hypermedia/facet_proj/index.php

GERHARD 2 - German Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory
http://www.dbi-berlin.de/projekte/d_lib/einzproj/elpubl/gerhard.htm

HILT - The High-Level Thesaurus Phase II
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index2.html

RENARDUS
http://www.renardus.org/cgi-bin/egwcgi/egwirtcl/screen.tcl/name=Start&lang=eng&service=ren

 

Vocabulary exchange

 

The Standards-based Access Service to Multilingual Lexicons and Terminologies Project (SALT)
http://www.ttt.org/salt/

OntoWeb - Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce
http://www.ontoweb.org


Portal technology

The Subject Portals Project
http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/

Portals & Portal Frameworks
http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/portal/

Digital Resources in Humanities

Palaeography - Developing the National Resource
http://www.palaeography.ac.uk/

Argos - search engine for covering the ancient and medieval world
http://argos.evansville.edu/

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

The Index of Christian Art
http://www.princeton.edu/~ica/

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
http://www.hmml.org/

MASTER: Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records
http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/master/

MALVINE - Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Network in Europe
http://www.malvine.org/

Online Reference book for Medieval studies- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Guide to the Philosophy Online
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

Noesis: Philosophical Research On-line
http://noesis.evansville.edu/bin/index.cgi

Philosophy around the Web
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html

Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/about.htm

Religious Studies Internet Links
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html

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Standards


Vocabulary modelling and exchange standards

 

MARC 21 Concise Format for Classification Data
http://www.loc.gov/marc/classification/eccdhome.html

Concise UNIMARC Classification Format (draft)
http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/concise.htm

Requirements for a Format for Classification Data (By E. W. Woods)

USMARC Format for Classification Data
http://www.carl.org/tlc/crs/clas0001.htm

ISO 12200:1999 MAchine-Readable Terminology Interchange Format (MARTIF)

Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF)
http://www.olif.net/

ISO 16642 Terminological Markup Framework
http://www.loria.fr/projets/TMF/
http://www.loria.fr/projets/TMF/DOC/ISO16642/ISO16642_051201.pdf

Information Flow Framework Language (IFF)
http://xml.coverpages.org/iff.html
http://www.ontologos.org/IFF/IFF.html

XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/

The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML)
http://daml.semanticweb.org/

The Ontology Inference Layer (OIL)
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/

Web Ontology Language (OWL)
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/

ISO/IEC 13250:2000 Topic Maps
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/

XFML Core - eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language
http://www.xfml.org/spec/1.0.html

Simple HTML Ontology extension (SHOE)
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/

Unified Modelling Language (UML)
http://www.rational.com/uml/index.jsp

The Vocabulary Markup Language (Voc-ML)
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/VOCML-1.DOC

Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/zthes-03.html

METS - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

 

Metadata standards and schemas

SPECTRUM - The UK Museum Documentation Standard
http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm

MIDAS - the Monument Inventory Data Standard
http://www.rchme.gov.uk/midas/mds/mdsindex.html

Powell, Andy and Pete Johnston. Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML (DCMI Proposed Recommendation)
http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/04/14/dc-xml-guidelines/

Kokkelink, Stefan and Roland Schwänzl. Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF / XML (DCMI Proposed Recommendation)
http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/04/14/dcq-rdf-xml/

Weibel, Stuart, Tom Baker, Tod Matola, Eric Miller. DRAFT Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI Working Draft)
http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/03/09/dcmi-namespace/

 

W3C Encoding standards

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml

The XML Cover Pages
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/

RDF RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-schema-20020430/

Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/

Readings...

Conceptual relationships for encoding thesauri, classification systems and organised metadata collections and a proposal for encoding a core set of thesaurus relationships using an RDF Schema
http://www.desire.org/results/discovery/rdfthesschema.html
Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF / XML
http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/04/14/dcq-rdf-xml/

 

Standards suggested for metadata vocabularies (language, format, coverage, date)

IS0-3166 Codes for representation of names of countries
English country names and code elements and corresponding ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 code elements

ISO 639:1988 Codes for the representation of names of languages
Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by English name of language

(ISO 639-2)
RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt


RFC 2046
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types

Protocols

OAI PMH - The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Directory Access Protocol
http://www.openldap.org/


SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/


Z39.50 Profiles
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/profiles.html


The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery Release 1.1 Internationally Registered Profile
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/bath/bp-current.htm

 

Vocabulary resources in humanities

Classifications

Bliss Bibliographic Classification 2nd ed. (outline)
http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/bca/bcoutline.htm

Broad System of Ordering Outline
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/bso/
[full schedules]

Dewey Decimal Classification - Summaries
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/ddc_21_summaries.htm

Universal Decimal Classification Outline (approx. 400 classes)
http://www.udcc.org/outline/outline.htm

Universal Decimal Classification Online (passwd protected)
http://www.udc-online.com

Universella Decimalklassifikationen (Swedish)
http://www.hb.se/bhs/udk/


Royal Historical Society - Classification and subject indexing scheme
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/rhs/thesintr.html

Thesauri

Arts & Architecture Thesaurus
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/

Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT)
http://www.picturethesaurus.gov.au/

British Museum Materials Thesaurus
http://www.mda.org.uk/bmmat/matintro.htm

British Object Names Thesaurus
http://www.mda.org.uk/bmobj/Objintro.htm

HASSET - Humanities And Social Science Electronic Thesaurus
http://dasun1.essex.ac.uk/services/khasset.html

MDA Arechaeological Objects Thesaurus
http://www.mda.org.uk/archobj/archcon.htm

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
(FATKS relevant categories: AA Art, Music, Literature; HI History and Archeology; SO Society and Culture)
http://en.thesaurus.gc.ca/intro_e.html

Other vocabulary sources

INSCRIPTION - List of worldlists
http://www.mda.org.uk/fish/i_lists.htm

 

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Tools


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Subject Gateways




ISKO France, Grenoble, 3 - 4 July 2003. Conceptual Approaches in Knowledge Organization: 4th Congress of the French Chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization.

69th IFLA General Conference and Council: Access Point Library: Media - Information - Culture, Berlin, Germany, 1 - 9 August 2003.

DRH2003 - Digital Resources for the Humanities, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK, 31 August - 3 September 2003.

ECDL 2003 - 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. August 17-22, Trondheim, Norway

DC-2003 - Dublin Core Conference: Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice - Metadata Research and Application. Seattle, Washington USA, 28 Sept - 2 October 2003.

ISKO 2004 - 8th International ISKO Conference: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society, London, 13 - 16 July, 2004.

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