scot subject access
DESCRIPTION
Presentation by Les Kneebone, Project Manager, Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) as part of the SCIS consultation workshop on 4 December 2012. This session provides an overview of developments in ScOT, its use in Australian Curriculum and as a source of subject access in school library systems.TRANSCRIPT
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
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