Aim

Aim

As part of the LCD effort for conservation vocabularies our aim is to express word-lists, glossaries and thesauri as SKOS data to enable interoperability. This means building or adopting software applications which will allow conservators interested in a concept and its associated records to find what terms other conservators use to describe that concept and associated records. For example, by matching ‘endbands’ (Language of Bindings thesaurus, http://w3id.org/lob/concept/2370) with ‘headbands’ (Getty Arts & Architecture Thesaurus, http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195163), a conservator searching with ‘endbands’ (Language of Bindings thesaurus, http://w3id.org/lob/concept/2370) will also find results for ‘headbands’ (Getty Arts & Architecture Thesaurus, http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195163). The individual records do not need alteration if this matching data is available which is the purpose of this effort. This is illustrated in the following diagram (figure 2).

Figure 2: Illustration of the role of the LCD repository, primarily holding data about concept matching across vocabularies and also as a potential host of vocabularies where such capacity does not exist.