useful linklist published by DOCAM (20090122)

GLOSSARIES AND THESAURI

Variable Media Glossary. Depocas, A., Ippolito, J., and Jones, C. (eds) (2003). Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology.
http://www.variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pub_index.html

Capturing Unstable Media Glossary, V2
http://capturing.projects.v2.nl/glossary.html

UNESCO Thesaurus
http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), Glossary
http://www.imappreserve.org/cat_proj/glossary.html

Dictionnaire des arts médiatiques. 1996, Groupe de recherche en arts médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://132.208.118.245/Accueil.html

Inside Installations Glossary
http://glossary.inside-installations.org

Bay Area Video Coalition - Glossary
http://www.bavc.org/preservation/dvd/resources/gloss.htm

Digital Curation Centre Glossary
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/glossary/

AMIA Glossary
http://www.amianet.org

Besser, Howard. Introduction to imaging : issues in constructing an image database : revised edition. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2003.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/glossary.html
[includes Glossary]

InterPARES Glossary (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems)
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip1_glossary.pdf
[archival context]

Grand dictionnaire terminologique, Office québecois de la langue française
http://www.granddictionnaire.ca

Kodak Glossary of Film/Video Terms.
http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Education/Film_Video_Glossary/index.htm

Lexical and Classification Resources from CoOl
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/lex/
[With links to glossaries and thesauri, this CoOl site offers information specific to magnetic media preservation as well as other areas of archival research.]

Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS), Joan M. Reitz.
http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_r.cfm

WordNet
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Glossaries
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/format/gloss.html

Recording institute of Detroit, Audio Recording Terms Glossary
http://recordingeq.com/glossary/glospt.htm

Structured Glossary from the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee of the Commission on Preservation and Access
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/lynn/
[This extensive glossary breaks terms down by document medium, format, properties, content, and condition. It also includes storage terms, specific preservation terms, methodology, and more].

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

Tech Terms Dictionary
http://www.techterms.com

Technical Glossary of Common Audiovisual Terms (developed by National Film and Sound Archive - Australia)
http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/preservation/audiovisual_terms/

Universal Preservation Format Glossary
http://info.wgbh.org/upf/glossary.html
[Developed in conjunction with the Universal Preservation Format, this glossary has cross-domain definitions of preservation terms and provides links to glossaries that have additional source information.]

OTHER TERMINOLOGY SOURCES / RESSOURCES

Documentation and capturing methods for unstable media arts, V2
http://archive.v2.nl/v2_archive/projects/capturing/1_2_capturing.pdf

Description models for unstable media art. V2.
http://archive.v2.nl/v2_archive/projects/capturing/1_3_metadata.pdf

Class Hierarchy for cmcm_final Project, V2
http://archive.v2.nl/v2_archive/projects/capturing/cmcm/html/

CIDOC CRM – Conceptual Reference Model
http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/

Audio and Video Carriers, TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe)
www.tape-online.net/docs/audio_and_video_carriers.pdf

JISC Techwatch A-Z Technologies
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/techwatch/aztechnologies.aspx

Computer Forensics Tools Testing Website
http://www.cftt.nist.gov/

Disk Imaging Specification Comments and Responses
http://www.cftt.nist.gov/DI-SPEC-COMMENTS-AND-RESPONSES-5.doc

Sustainability of Digital Formats, Library of Congress
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml

UK Archival Thesaurus
http://www.ukat.org.uk/
[SKOS implementation]

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Home Page
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/

DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf