1. Diane Vizine-Goetz OCLC Research
Dewey Users Group ALA Midwinter Meeting 2005 Research Update on Terminology Services
Diane Vizine-Goetz
OCLC Research

2. Project Goal
The goal of the terminology services project is to make the concepts in knowledge organization schemes and the relationships within and between schemes more accessible to people and computer applications

3. Approach
To develop techniques/web services that can be redeployed in other environments
Web services are modular, web-based, machine-to-machine applications that can be combined in various ways

4. Terminology Services
Terminology services are web services for knowledge organization schemes (kos)
e.g., authority files, subject heading systems, thesauri, taxonomies, and classification schemes
A web service that provides mappings from a term in one vocabulary to one or more terms in another vocabulary is an example of a terminology service, e.g. DDC/LCSH mappings

5. Schemas Supported
MARC 21 formats for authority and classification data
SKOS core, an RDF schema for thesauri and related knowledge organization schemes
Zthes version 0.5

6. DDC Summaries Available in MARC Classification Format and SKOS
DDC22 summaries web service
Captions & Hierarchy
Multiple languages
English, French, German, Spanish
DDC ebook browser
Developed in collaboration with Thom Hickey

7. DDC 22 Summaries (English) in MARC classification format

8. DDC 22 Summaries (German) in MARC classification format
DDC 22 Summaries (English) in MARC classification format

13. German Captions

14. Links Terminology Services project page OCLC Newsletter article
OCLC Newsletter article
OCLC ResearchWorks