Controlled Vocabs Decision Tree Meeting 2020-04-14

Connection Info:

3-4pm Eastern
Zoom: https://iu.zoom.us/j/207369760

Notetaker: Julie Hardesty

Attendees: Dawn, Erik, Gretchen, Rebecca, Julie

Agenda/Notes:

• Controlled Vocabularies - Use Cases

  • Review edits

    • remove Hyrax/Hyku columns from first tab

    • uniform title - comes from LCNAF

    • medium/form/material - not a single vocab but there are several to choose from

      • maybe use this as a walkthrough use case in Decision Tree doc

    • license vs rights can also be mixed depending on how they are being used

      • maybe discuss these choices in Decision Tree doc when talking about Hyrax/Hyku implementation

  • OER use case - new properties that needed CVs

    • types of education materials - based on terms from other OER projects, creating local list

    • Learning Object Metadata from DC was involved in this

    • good for Locally defined CVs - when do you make a locally-defined vocab?

• Controlled Vocabulary (CV) Decision Tree

  • Which property are you considering when trying to choose a controlled vocabulary?

  • Why do you want a controlled vocab? best practice or administrative/functional

  • Questions you would ask yourself when considering whether or not to use a CV for a field

  • Review edits

  • proposal to think of decision tree in levels - Dawn will lay this out at end of Decision Tree document for us to review/edit

    • Level 1 - What can I do? what is available now for CVs and how they work

    • Level 2 - using part of a CV or multiple CVs for one field

    • Level 3 - getting into questions of why do you want CV? defining local vocab for particular use

• Doodle poll for next meeting time - Julie sent