Encoding Library of Congress Subject Headings in SKOS: Authority Control for the Semantic Web

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2006-09-04T01:11:03Z

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Harper, Corey A.

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This paper explores using XSLT stylesheets to translate LCSH Authority Records from MARC/XML or MADS XML formats into RDF documents according to the SKOS project's Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web. Creating an RDF Data Store that represents the content of LCSH will have tremendous long-term benefits in allowing a greater breadth of applications to make full use of the relationships between concepts provided by LC Subject Headings.

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Pre-print of an article to be published in the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 3 - 6 October 2006 Conference Proceedings. Also includes PowerPoint slides for a presentation given October 4, 2006 at DC2006 in Manzanillo, Mexico.

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Controlled vocabularies, Authority control, Thesauri, SKOS, Authority files (Information retrieval)

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