Title: Managing resource relationships with vocabularies: a case study

Authors: Martin Kurth, Greg Nehler, Rick Silterra

Addresses: Cornell University Library, 107 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. ' Cornell University Library, 107 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. ' Cornell University Library, 107 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Abstract: The Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL) exemplifies digital collections in which groups of objects are versions of the same resource and which resources are related to one another taxonomically. Other objects in the collection are supplementary materials that explicitly cite the primary KMODDL resources. To manage the complex relationships among KMODDL objects while maintaining the Dublin Core one-to-one principle, metadata developers established controlled vocabulary encoding schemes that linked related objects. The solution implemented enables users to find in a single search all versions of a resource and all supplementary materials that cite the resource.

Keywords: application profiles; bibliographic relationships; controlled vocabularies; encoding schemes; functional requirements; bibliographic records; FRBR; kinematics; Dublin Core; digital libraries; metadata vocabularies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.012341

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2006 Vol.1 No.3, pp.176 - 182

Published online: 06 Feb 2007 *

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