Overview
Thesauri have the potential to improve information management within large organisations. They can be used within content management systems, search engines or tagging systems. The school education sector faces new challenges and opportunities for integrating vocabulary services within collection and discovery systems.
ScOT is designed to meet such challenges and opportunities. For over a decade, ScOT has provided thesaurus solutions that align with the education resource collections, user behavior and organisation of school education sector.
Information about how to access ScOT data and services is included below. ScOT data can be leveraged to enance search, build navigation and connect curriculum to collections; code samples are provided to exploit ScOT data for a number of use cases.
API
ScOT data can be accessed via the ScOT SPARQL Endpoint.
Sample SPARQL 1.1 queries are provided to support common use cases, including enhancing search and maintaining collections. Common cases include:
- Faceted search - expanding user queries to retrieve items tagged with narrower concepts
- Curriculum connect - linking collections tagged with ScOT to machine-readable curriculum
- Did you mean, or synonym matching
- Navigation - 'left-hand browse'
- Updating changed concept labels
- Deprecated and authorised replacement concepts
ScOT data can also be accessed via RESTful webservices. A guide to the RESTful API is provided by Semantic Web Company.
Download
Data can be accessed as a whole vocabulary file at the Download page.
