scot subject access

Education Services Australia

Les KneeboneProject manager – Schools Online Thesaurus

scot.esa.edu.au

SCIS subject headings

• Rationale

• Reference structures

• Getting the message out about value of authority files

• Updates and usability of authority files

• Future

ScOT in SCIS project

“Schools of the future will most likely move to unified discovery systems which will make a standardised approach to resource subject

description very desirable for schools – keyword searching is rapidly becoming the pre-eminent means of resource retrieval”

ScOT in SCIS project, 2006

ScOT overview

Warrant

Curriculum

Identifiers

Structure

Multilingual

Users

Vocabulary

Curriculum

ScOT warrant

ScOT in Australian curriculum

ScOT is used to describe Australian Curriculum

Content

SCOT

SCOT

SCOT

Curriculum123

SCOT

SCOT

SCOT

Search for content with high correlation of SCOT

tags for 123

Alignment between resources and curriculum may be inferred via ScOT

Aligning resources

Identifiers

Managing concepts, not ‘terms’

Identifiers are http and resolvable

Concepts may be dereferenced from resources

http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2458

Ecosystems

Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Bioindicators; Biomes; Competition (Ecology); Ecological niches; Ecological succession; Food webs; Habitats; Land degradation; Native species; Populations (Ecology); Symbiosis

Ecology

Use for resources about communities of living organisms interacting with each other and with their environment, including the processes that take place.

生態系 ; 生态系统 ; Mātauranga taupuhi kaiao; Ekosistem; بيئي Ökosystem; Οικοσύστημα; Ecosistema; 생태계 ;نظام ; Hệ

sinh thái; Ekosistem; Ecosistema; पा�रि�स्थि�तिक �त्र; Écosystème

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85040752#concept

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ecosystem

Discussion

How can school library systems realise the benefits of ScOT for curriculum alignment, multilingual subject access and search?

Option 1

Transition from use of SCIS subject headings to ScOT terms

Option 2

Manage and display both SCIS subject headings AND ScOT terms in a meaningful way for users