Add Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS) to QA

[gracianipicardo]

The PCC Standing Committee on Standards has requested the PCC MAP working group to add this vocabulary to the PCC Sinopia templates.

This scheme is developed and maintained by the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL/ALA). These thesauri provide standardized vocabulary for retrieving special collections materials by form, genre, or by various physical characteristics that are typically of interest to researchers and special collections librarians, and for relating materials to individuals or corporate bodies.

NOTE: This vocabulary was recently migrated to id.loc.gov. Because this is a new data source for the vocabulary, this request supersedes issue #228.

Please perform each task listed below. (Email sf433 @ cornell dot edu with questions):

• Please consult the LD4P2 QA Authority Support Plan (https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/wiki/Authority-Lookup-Support-Plan-for-Sinopia) to confirm the dataset isn't already being supported.
• Identify the data source: (Include the Data Source Name, its homepage URL, and any relevant API and/or download information to aid in caching.)
• QA has the ability to provide contextual information about an entity during the look-up experience. In order to do so, decisions need to be made about how to index the RDF descriptions of entities in the dataset. Add a new tab and indexing information for the data source to the following spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPvEoP9iYNkxJ0eWC8gXe3ci7e6mhW0da59xkGhadi0/edit?usp=sharing. (See the existing LCNAF tab in the spreadsheet as an example)

Next steps:

Once the above actions have taken place, a link to a YAML file will be shared with the requestor via a comment in the issue in order to complete Accuracy Test, https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/wiki/Writing-Tests-for-an-Authority#accuracy-test. Edit directly the YAML file in Github, save. Create a Pull Request to be reviewed. Be sure to including a meaningful commit message (e.g. adding accuracy tests for Authority X).

Context on Accuracy Tests: In order to make sure the QA search behavior (recall and relevancy) are meeting expectations, QA uses YAML to define test parameters. These parameters include the ability to declare for a particular text string searched, the results should include a particular resource (identified by a URI) and what is the maximum position in the results the resource should be found.)

[sfolsom]

@gracianipicardo I don't see this vocab in id.loc.gov. Can you point me to a URL?

[gracianipicardo]

@sfolsom - https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv.html

[gracianipicardo]

The RBMS vocabulary has now been officially launched: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv.html

id.loc.gov also hosts now the RBMS Relationship Designators vocabulary: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmsrel.html

I have added a new entry in the Indexing of External Data for Look-ups spreadsheet for the the RBMS Relationship Designators one. Do I need to open a new github issue for it, or could this one serve for both requests?

[sfolsom]

Thanks for the update on this vocabulary @gracianipicardo. The LD4P3 project is considering moving toward a cache-less strategy for as many lookups as possible. The hope is to include a "direct" QA Lookup for every id.loc.gov vocabulary using LC's established APIs. We're still in the planning stages for this work, but I'll do my best to provide any related updates for this RBMS vocab request.