Presented on Saturday, June 25 at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando Florida. The presentation was sponsored by the ALCTS CaMMs Copy Cataloging Interest Group

1. Vocabulary
Development for Local
Use
A DIY Introduction

2. Why Local Vocabularies?
O Better recognition of the need for local
services
O Increased understanding of the limits of
shared centralized vocabularies
O Movement of responsibility from central
node to decentralized control
O Availability of tools to develop and
maintain local vocabularies (and
vocabulary extensions)
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3. Where to Start
O Determining need and scope
O Learning the basics of vocabulary
development and maintenance
O Building local expertise and documentation
O Evaluating tools
O http://www.asindexing.org/about-indexing/thesauri/thesaurus-
management-software/ Many have costs; vary in sophistication
O http://metadataregistry.org/ Free, oriented towards libraries
O Determining maintenance and review
policies
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4. Open Metadata Registry
(OMR) Disclosure:
I’ve been involved in this project
for over a decade. I’m not selling
anything: it’s free and open to
anyone
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5. OMR Services
O Simple development, publishing and
maintenance of element and concept
vocabularies
O Use the OMR domain
(http://metadataregistry.org) for URIs or your
own
O Apply statuses for review periods, to build
a community to manage and maintain
O Make published vocabularies available in a
variety of formats
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6. Ex.: Langsdale Game Genre Headings
“Descriptors for games in the collection of Langsdale Library, University of
Baltimore. The descriptors are entered into the library's catalog records,
indexed as subjects. They are tagged in the MARC records in OCLC as 655
_7, $2 local, $5 MdBU. The library's catalog is available at
http://ubalt.worldcat.org/. Work in progress.”
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7. Ex.: Museo Reina Sofia
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8. Ex.: National Library of Scotland
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9. Simple Steps
O Go to http://metadataregistry.org
O Figure out what you want to do! (properties
or concepts?)
O Register yourself and any group you wish
to associate with your vocabulary
O Name and describe your vocabulary
O Establish your base URI
O Add properties or concepts
O Fill in definitions and other info
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10. What You Get
O Ability to point others to your work, and
get comments and suggestions
O Pay attention to status—’new—under
review’ implies not ready for prime time;
‘published’ says it’s ready for immediate
use
O [If you use our domain] URIs resolve
immediately to the information you’ve
provided; to use your domain, we’ll need
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11. Just Experimenting?
O Try http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org
O Caveats: might disappear, can’t yet be
ported to the production file
O Same steps, fewer services
O Instructions available on site
O Be aware things are changing as we
upgrade software and services
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12. Contact Information
Diane Hillmann
metadata.maven@gmail.com
Links:
http://RDARegistry.info
http://managemetadata.com/blog/
The First MetadataMobile
(now driving MetadataMobile 3.0)
Vocabulary Development for Local Use