Catalogue your learning materials
Using ScOT terms in school catalogues or web metadata allows more comprehensive description of:
- digital curriculum resources, such as learning objects, film clips and images
- printed materials found in online catalogues
- research, policy and administrative documents relevant to school education
Download the guide
This document contains guidelines for using ScOT to describe educational resources.
ScOT
cataloguing and indexing guide (PDF, 160 KB)
Cataloguer's tools
Guideline 4.3 of the ScOT cataloguing and indexing guide recommends against describing a resource using both parent and child terms. This cataloguing tool allows you to check the hierarchical relationship between terms. Simply enter the relevant terms in the text box, separated by semi-colons, pipes, or tabs (eg. Coasts; Landforms|Earth structure), with or without spaces. NOTE: Query terms will only be displayed if they are exact matches for ScOT terms, including capitalisation.
Results will display the hierarchy of each search term, from the term itself up to the top-level concept. Other search terms that are parent terms will be displayed in red text.
