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Vocabularies

The following vocabularies are widely used. Use of common vocabularies improves the ability of digital objects to be found when the repository is searched.

Vocabulary Used for
ISO 3166-1
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes.htm
Country codes
Art & Architecture (Getty)
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/about.html
Subject terms
Dictionary of Irish Biography
http://dib.cambridge.org/
Subject terms
Format List; Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
Media types
GEMET
http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/inspire_themes
Geographical subject terms
Geonames
www.geonames.org
Place names
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
Non-Irish place names or geographical keywords
Getty Union List of Artists Names – ULAN
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html
Personal Names
HASSET
https://hasset.ukdataservice.ac.uk/thesaurus-search.aspx
Social Science Keywords
Iconclass
https://rkd.nl/en/collections/services-tools/iconclass
Subject terms
Irish Guidelines for Indexing Archives
http://bit.ly/1bEVS0X
Personal and Corporate Names
ISO 8601
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso8601.htm
Dates
ISO639
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm
Language
Library of Congress name authorities (personal and corporate)
http://authorities.loc.gov/help/name-auth.htm
Personal and corporate names
Library of Congress Subject Headings
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html
Subject terms including temporal coverage
MARC country codes
http://www.loc.gov/marc/countries/
Country Codes
MARC language codes
http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/
Languages
National Register of Archives
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Personal, corporate names and subject terms
Placenames database of Ireland
www.logainm.ie
Irish place names
RFC1766
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt
Language
UK Archival Thesarus (UKAT)
http://www.ukat.org.uk/
Subject terms
Unesco Thesaurus
http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/
Subject terms
W3.org (YYYY-MM-DD)
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date
Dates
W3C Geo
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_geolocation.asp
Longitude and Latitude

 

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