NKOS Thesaurus Registry Update Gail Hodge Information International Associates, Inc. NKOS Workshop, August 14, 1999

Thesaurus Registry Background Working group established based on discussions at 1998 workshop Data elements needed to describe vocabulary resources (KOS) Based on previous work by Linda Hill and Mike Raugh Draft issued November 1998

Biodiversity Vocabulary Pilot Biological Resources Division (BRD) and the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Part of the background effort to build CERES/BRD vocabulary for biodiversity and ecosystem science Developed Access database to the draft registry standard

Lessons Learned Works better for thesauri than for other vocabularies Sometimes difficult for cataloger to complete the fields because need to know more in-depth information Benefit by having owner/creators do the registration Date needed to be changed to be Y2K compliant

Next Steps for BRD BRD will modify Access database and continue development of its catalog Make it available via the NBII Reconcile the standard with the NBII (FGDC based) metadata standard so the resources can be accessed by the CHM search engine

Suggested Next Steps for the WG Develop taxonomy for vocabularies Continue reconciliation of the standard elements with other efforts at registration Testing of draft by NKOS members Perhaps approach NISO about hosting a review of the results