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.htmCRG – 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.htmH-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/
FACET Project – Thesaurus based access to multimedia collections: faceted retrieval tools
http://web.glam.ac.uk/schools/soc/research/hypermedia/facet_proj/index.phpGERHARD 2 – German Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory
http://www.dbi-berlin.de/projekte/d_lib/einzproj/elpubl/gerhard.htmHILT – The High-Level Thesaurus Phase II
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index2.htmlRENARDUS
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.orgPortal 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.htmlThe 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.htmNoesis: Philosophical Research On-line
http://noesis.evansville.edu/bin/index.cgiPhilosophy around the Web
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.htmlGuide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/about.htmReligious Studies Internet Links
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html
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.htmRequirements for a Format for Classification Data (By E. W. Woods)
USMARC Format for Classification Data
http://www.carl.org/tlc/crs/clas0001.htmISO 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.pdfInformation Flow Framework Language (IFF)
http://xml.coverpages.org/iff.html
http://www.ontologos.org/IFF/IFF.htmlXML 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.htmlSimple HTML Ontology extension (SHOE)
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/Unified Modelling Language (UML)
http://www.rational.com/uml/index.jspThe Vocabulary Markup Language (Voc-ML)
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/VOCML-1.DOCZthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/zthes-03.htmlMETS – 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
AMICO Data Specification
http://www.amico.org/AMICOlibrary/dataspec.html
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 Schw�nzl. 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 standardsXML Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xmlThe 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/
IS0-3166 Codes for representation of names of countries
English country names and code elements and corresponding ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 code elementsISO 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.txtRFC 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.htmlDirectory 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.htmlThe 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
Bliss Bibliographic Classification 2nd ed. (outline)
http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/bca/bcoutline.htmBroad 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.htmUniversal Decimal Classification Outline (approx. 400 classes)
http://www.udcc.org/outline/outline.htmUniversal 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.htmBritish Object Names Thesaurus
http://www.mda.org.uk/bmobj/Objintro.htmHASSET – Humanities And Social Science Electronic Thesaurus
http://dasun1.essex.ac.uk/services/khasset.htmlMDA Arechaeological Objects Thesaurus
http://www.mda.org.uk/archobj/archcon.htmGovernment 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
Protegé
http://protege.stanford.edu/FacetMap
http://facetmap.com:8080/index.html
Humbul Humanities Hub
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/Indexes and Databases – Arts & Humanities
http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/newsite/browse/arts.html
RENARDUS
http://www.renardus.org/cgi-bin/egwcgi/egwirtcl/screen.tcl/name=Start&lang=eng&service=renSOSIG
http://www.sosig.ac.ukGERHARD
http://www.gerhard.de/
Ariadne
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/Aslib Proceedings
http://www.aslib.co.uk/proceedings/index.htmlD-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/First Monday
http://firstmonday.dk/Journal of Digital Information
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Journal of Documentation
http://operatix.emerald-library.com/vl=2041157/cl=62/nw=1/rpsv/jd.htmKnowledge Organization
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/orgs/isko/pubs.html#KOProgram: electronic library and information systems
http://operatix.emerald-library.com/vl=2041157/cl=62/nw=1/rpsv/prog.htm
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.
ISKO 2004 – 8th International ISKO Conference: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society, London, 13 – 16 July, 2004.