Implementation Experience Report for Controlled Vocabularies Used with the Audubon Core Terms subjectPart and subjectOrientation

By

Baskauf, Steven J
Girón, Jennifer C.
Nielsen, Matthew
Cobb, Neil
Singer, Randy
Seltmann, Katja
Kachian, Zachary
Pérez, Mervin
Agosti, Donat
Klompen, Anna

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-1-4

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

7

Pages

1--21

Subjects

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) , multimedia metadata , two-dimensional still images

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.94188

 

Abstract

The Audubon Core vocabulary terms subjectPart and subjectOrientation are used to describe the depicted part of an organism and its orientation in an image. We describe the criteria and process for developing controlled vocabularies for these two terms. The vocabularies take the form of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) concept schemes and their terms are categorized using SKOS collections to allow users to select from particular sets of values appropriate for particular organism groups and their parts. We also report the results of implementation testing used to determine the usability of the proposed terms with actual images of living organisms and preserved specimens.