NSF Controlled Vocabulary Lists for Defined Fields
Version 0.5 (not complete)
By Gene Alloway
UMDL Conspectus Group
12/1/94
Searchable Form(s)
This field contains information about the types of content in the collection which can be searched by a particular query
Terms:
- Unstructured text:
- full text
- bibliographic information
- bibliographic information, abstract
Structured Text:
- full text, sgml
- full text, html
- bibliographic information
- bibliographic information, abstract
- bibliographic information, abstract, unstructured fulltext
- bibliographic information, unstructured fulltext
- bibliographic information, structured fulltext, sgml
- bibliographic information, abstract, structured fulltext, sgml
- bibliographic information, structured fulltext, html
- bibliographic information, abstract, structured fulltext, html
Unstructured Numeric Data
- Structured Numeric Data
Deliverable Form(s)
This field designates in what form(s) or format(s) results of queries can return.
Terms:
- Text:
- image-based text
- Postscript
- PDF (Acrobat)
- PDF (other: please specify)
- unstructured ASCII
- SGML (ISO12083 DTD)
- SGML (DOCBOOK DTD)
- SGML (CALS DTD)
- SGML (TEI DTD)
- SGML (other DTD: please specify)
- HTML (Level 1)
- HTML (Level 2)
- HTML (Level 3)
- Software:
- Apple
- DOS
- Windows
- Unix
- Amiga
- Macintosh
- Image (This includes only the digital format of various kinds of images):
- GIF
- JPEG
- PICT
- TIFF
- PCX
- Video:
- MPEG
- Quicktime
- AVI
Addresses:
- URL
Sound:
- .wav
Audience
This field contains information about the appropriate user group(s) of the collection.
Terms
- Teacher: (or Instructor:)
- K-12
- high school
- undergraduate
- graduate
- All
- Student:
- K-12
- middle school
- high school
- lower undergraduate
- degree undergraduate
- masters
- advanced degree
- All
Adult:
- general
- college
- researcher
Juvenile:
- general
Treatment
This field contains information about the intellectual level of presentation of collections.
Terms:
- Scholarly
- Intermediary
- Introductory
- Guide
- Reference
- Directory
- Index
Update Frequency
This field contains information as to how often the content of a particular content changes.
Terms:
- Continuous
- Irregular
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Quarterly
- Semiannually
- Annually
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