FAIRsharing record for: Metadata Authority Description Schema in RDF

This FAIRsharing record describes: MADS/RDF is a knowledge organization system (KOS) designed for use with controlled values for names (personal, corporate, geographic, etc.), thesauri, taxonomies, subject heading systems, and other controlled value lists. It is closely related to SKOS, the Simple Knowledge Organization System and a widely supported and adopted RDF vocabulary. MADS/RDF has been fully mapped to SKOS. It is presented as an OWL ontology. While SKOS is very broad in its application, MADS/RDF is designed specifically to support authority data as used by and needed in the LIS community and its technology systems. For example, MADS/RDF provides a means to record data from the Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) Authorities format in RDF for use in semantic applications and Linked Data projects.

本FAIRsharing记录所描述的内容为：MADS/RDF是一款知识组织系统（Knowledge Organization System，KOS），专为配合名称（包括个人、机构、地理名称等）、叙词表、分类法、主题标引系统及其他受控值列表的受控取值使用而设计。它与被广泛支持与采纳的资源描述框架（RDF）词汇集——简单知识组织系统（SKOS，Simple Knowledge Organization System）关系密切。MADS/RDF已完成与SKOS的完整映射，并以网络本体语言（OWL）本体的形式呈现。尽管SKOS的应用范畴十分宽泛，但MADS/RDF的设计目标是专门支持图书馆与信息科学（LIS，Library and Information Science）领域及其技术系统所需的权威数据。例如，MADS/RDF提供了一种将机读目录（MARC，Machine Readable Cataloging）权威格式的数据转换为RDF格式的方法，以供语义应用与关联数据（Linked Data）项目使用。