Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service CETIS MDR SIG meeting 6 th May 2008 R. John Robertson

What is HILT? Helping map those shovels… helping people find things where they expect/ in their own terms… One of the terminology services of JISC’s e-infrastructure

Helping map those shovels… helping people find things where they expect/ in their own terms…

One of the terminology services of JISC’s e-infrastructure

What is HILT? (2) Creating pilot web services that will deliver machine-readable terminology and cross-terminology mappings Based on SRW/U, SOAP and SKOS When fully operational HILT will help improve YOUR subject search and browse mechanisms (but still be invisible to your users). HILT gives you machine-processable data on selected individual subject schemes (broader terms, narrower terms, hierarchy information, preferred and non-preferred terms, and so on) and interoperability data.

Creating pilot web services that will deliver machine-readable terminology and cross-terminology mappings

Based on SRW/U, SOAP and SKOS

When fully operational HILT will help improve YOUR subject search and browse mechanisms (but still be invisible to your users).

HILT gives you machine-processable data on selected individual subject schemes (broader terms, narrower terms, hierarchy information, preferred and non-preferred terms, and so on) and interoperability data.

What is HILT? (3) It provides the best terms for a subject search in a remote service that uses a subject scheme unfamiliar to "home service" users. HILT currently has the following KOS (Knowledge Organisation Systems) mounted and available: AAT, CAB, GCMD, HASSET, IPSV, LCSH, MeSH, NMR, SCAS, UNESCO, and DDC. Improving recall in a subject search of one or more databases by enriching the set of terms known to a user by providing synonyms and related terms. Generating an interactive browse structure where a scheme is arranged hierarchically. Taking a user's subject term and using it to identify available information services with subject coverage relevant to the query via collections and/or services databases such as IESR ( http://iesr.ac.uk/ ) and SCONE ( http://scone.strath.ac.uk/service/ )

It provides the best terms for a subject search in a remote service that uses a subject scheme unfamiliar to "home service" users.

HILT currently has the following KOS (Knowledge Organisation Systems) mounted and available: AAT, CAB, GCMD, HASSET, IPSV, LCSH, MeSH, NMR, SCAS, UNESCO, and DDC.

Improving recall in a subject search of one or more databases by enriching the set of terms known to a user by providing synonyms and related terms.

Generating an interactive browse structure where a scheme is arranged hierarchically.

Taking a user's subject term and using it to identify available information services with subject coverage relevant to the query via collections and/or services databases such as IESR ( http://iesr.ac.uk/ ) and SCONE ( http://scone.strath.ac.uk/service/ )

HILT wants you! HILT is about to begin at least six months of ‘public’ testing. Individuals or services interested in participating, should begin by joining the HILT-Collaborators email list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=hilt-collaborators&A=1 . Note: this is only for testing purposes. They cannot and should not be built into operational services.

HILT is about to begin at least six months of ‘public’ testing. Individuals or services interested in participating, should begin by joining the HILT-Collaborators email list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=hilt-collaborators&A=1 .

Note: this is only for testing purposes. They cannot and should not be built into operational services.

More Information http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/issues/vol5/5_4_2.html Emma McCulloch, Project Manager, [email_address] Dennis Nicholson, Project Director, [email_address]

http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/issues/vol5/5_4_2.html

Emma McCulloch, Project Manager, [email_address]

Dennis Nicholson, Project Director, [email_address]