High-Level Thesaurus
Welcome to the website of the High-Level Thesaurus Project (HILT). The HILT project, which is now in phase IV, aims to research, investigate, pilot, and develop solutions for, problems pertaining to cross-searching multi-subject scheme information environments.
Dissemination: HILT and related...
Dunsire, G. Terminology services and the DDC: the High-Level Thesaurus and beyond/
Presented to the symposium Dewey goes Europe: on the use and development of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) in European libraries, Austrian National Library, Vienna
28 April 2009. Presentation slides available in Powerpoint or PDF.
HILT: Enhancing subject search through embedded web services, JISC Conference 2009, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, 24th Mar 2009. Presentation slides available in Powerpoint or PDF.
Metadata and Scotland’s information environment: potential benefits of Web 2.0, Metadata Issues and Web Services, CIGS Seminar, 30 Jan 2009.
HILT IV Pilot Toolkit Demonstration, CIG 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 3-5 Sep 2008. Presentation slides available in Powerpoint or PDF.
Nicholson, D. A Common Research and Development Agenda for Subject Interoperability Services? Signum, Issue 5, 2008.
McCulloch, E. & Macgregor, G. Analysis of equivalence mapping for terminology services, Journal of Information Science, 2008 34(1) pp.70-92. Available in PDF.
Nicholson, D. 'Optimising Interoperability in Multi-KOS Subject Searching: Framework for a Collaborative Approach? The Challenge of the Electronic Environment to the Organization of Knowledge - Second International Seminar on Subject Access to Information, Helsinki, Finland, 29-30 Nov 2007.
Macgregor, G. McCulloch, E. & Nicholson, D. Terminology server for
improved resource
discovery: analysis of model and functions, MTSR
2007: 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research,
11-12 October 2007, Corfu, 2007. Available in PDF.
Macgregor, G., Joseph, A. & Nicholson, D. A SKOS Core approach to implementing an M2M terminology mapping server, International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007), 21-23 February 2007, Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), R.V. College, Bangalore, India, 2007. Paper available in PDF; presentation slides available in Powerpoint or PDF.
Nicholson, D. & McCulloch, E. Investigating the feasibility of a distributed, mapping-based, approach to solving subject interoperability problems in a multi-scheme, cross-service, retrieval environment, International Conference on Digital Libraries, 5-8 December 2006, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, 2006. Available in PDF.
Nicholson, D. & McCulloch, E. HILT Phase III: Design requirements of an SRW-compliant Terminologies Mapping Pilot, 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, 10th ECDL Conference, 21 September 2006, Alicante, Spain, 2006. Available in Powerpoint or PDF.
Nicholson D., Dawson A. & Shiri, A. HILT: A Terminology Mapping Service with a DDC Spine, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2006 42(3/4) pp.187-200. Available in PDF.
Nicholson D. & McCulloch E. Interoperable Subject Retrieval in a Distributed Multi-Scheme Environment: New Developments in the HILT Project, Ibersid, 2-4 November 2005, Zaragoza, Spain, 2005. Pre-print available in PDF.
McCulloch E., Shiri A. & Nicholson D. Challenges and issues in terminology mapping: a digital library perspective, Electronic Library, 2005 23(6) pp.671-677. Available in PDF.
McCulloch E., Shiri A. & Nicholson D. Subject searching requirements: the HILT II experience, Library Review, 2004 53(8) pp.408-414.
Shiri A., Nicholson D. & McCulloch E. User evaluation of a pilot terminologies server for a distributed multi-scheme environment, Online Information Review 2004 28(4) pp.273-283.
McCulloch E. Multiple terminologies: an obstacle to information retrieval, Library Review, 2004 53(6) pp.297-300.
Dunsire G. & Macgregor G. Clumps and collection description in the information environment in the UK with particular reference to Scotland, Program, 2003 37(4) pp.218-225.
Nicholson D., Dunsire G. & Neill S. HILT: moving towards interoperability in subject terminologies, Journal of Internet Cataloguing, 2002 5(4) pp.97-111.
Nicholson D. High-level Thesaurus Project: investigating the problem of subject cross-searching and browsing between communities, In: Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium, ed. Chen C.-C. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2001.
Nicholson D. & Wake S. Interoperability in subject terminologies: the
HILT project,
New Review of Information Networking, 2001 7 pp.147-158.
Wake S. & Nicholson D. HILT: High-Level Thesaurus Project. Building consensus for interoperable subject access across communities, D-Lib, 2001 7(9).
Additional information: Search E-LIS for open access versions of some of the above papers and conference papers.
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Practitioner publications...
Nicholson, D. & Menzies, K. BUBL, HILT, and the Scottish Information Environment: potentials of Web 2 and Web 3,WIDWISAWN,7(1). Available at: http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/issues/vol7/issue7_1_4.html
Nicholson D., Macgregor G. & McCulloch, E. HILT Phase III: Possible Implications for a Scottish Terminologies Server, WIDWISAWN, 2006 4(1). Available at: http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/issues/vol4/issue4_1_2.html
Wake S. & Nicholson D. HILT: subject access across domains, SCONUL Newsletter, 2001 (23) pp.14-18.
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