Toward linked data: The Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Smith, Priscilla Jane
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • The Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary that will be used to describe music resources and is developed by the Music Library Association in conjunction with the Library of Congress. The objective of this study is to report on the current status of the LCMPT and to outline future steps which will allow the thesaurus to operate in a linked data environment. Four research questions examined the Simple Knowledge Organization System and its use with the LCMPT: the ways in which controlled vocabularies can be transformed into the Simple Knowledge Organization System format, the technologies and methods currently in use for this process, the effectiveness of these technologies and methods, and how the LCMPT can be most effectively converted into the Simple Knowledge Organization System format. Using existing documents, this qualitative study examined official World Wide Web Consortium documentation, the Open Metadata Registry, and was informed by work on the LCMPT performed at the Library of Congress. Tasks completed during an internship at the Library of Congress included discussion and planning for further LCMPT development and progress, development of the LCMPT Authority Data Elements, consideration of existing technologies and how they might be used in the development and deployment of LCMPT, conversion of existing LCMPT documentation into a more accessible format, research and documentation of the hierarchy of LCMPT, deployment of the LCMPT to a vocabulary space and element set space in the Open Metadata Registry, and consideration for future development of the LCMPT. The results of this study help to determine whether applying Semantic Web tools such as the Simple Knowledge Organization System to the LCMPT will allow music catalogers and other users of controlled vocabularies to begin harnessing the many potential benefits of the Semantic Web.
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  • Greenberg, Jane
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  • Master of Science in Information Science
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