Title:

NISO Metasearch Initiative Proposed Property : Completeness Level
Creator:
NISO Metasearch Initiative Task Group 2
Date Issued:
2005-05-07
Identifier:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/nisomi/completenessLevel/2005-05-07/
Replaces:
Not applicable
Is Replaced By:
Not applicable
Latest Version:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/nisomi/completenessLevel/
Status of Document:
This is a Working Draft of NISO Metasearch Initiative Task Group 2
Description of Document: This document presents a proposal from the NISO Metasearch Initiative Task Group 2 for a new property, subjectCompleteness.

Proposal

Name completenessLevel
Label Level of Completeness
Definition The level of completeness in the subject area indicated.
Comment

This property specifies the level of completeness which is associated with a SubjectCompletenessIndicator.

It is strongly recommended that the level of completeness is drawn from a recognised scheme such as the Conspectus Levels

A free text value may be used.
Examples

Completeness of the Finnish national collection:

[as SubjectCompletenessIndicator]

Subject: [LCSH] Finland

Level of Completeness: [Conspectus Level] 5

RDF/XML example (RDF Graph)

    <rdf:RDF
          xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
          xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
          xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
          xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
          xmlns:prop="http://example.org/proposed/terms/">
      <rdf:Description>
        <dc:title xml:lang="en">The Finnish National Collection</dc:title>
        <prop:subjectCompleteness>
          <prop:SubjectCompletenessIndicator>
            <prop:completenessSubject rdf:type="http://purl.org/dc/terms/LCSH"
                                      rdfs:label="Finland" />
            <prop:completenessLevel rdf:type="http://example.org/proposed/terms/ConspectusLevel"
                                    rdf:resource="http://example.org/proposed/terms/ConspectusLevel/5" />
          </prop:SubjectCompletenessIndicator>
        </prop:subjectCompleteness>
      </rdf:Description>
    </rdf:RDF>
Type of term Property
Term qualified

None
Why needed

The use of a structured SubjectCompletenessIndicator value for the subjectCompleteness property enables applications to perform operations such as searching for descriptions of collections according to specified completeness levels in a specified subject area.

The completenessLevel property allows an application to access the level of completeness distinct from the subject in which completeness is indicated.
Working Group support
Proposed status
Related DCMI terms

None
Related non-DCMI terms

(Proposed encoding scheme) SubjectCompletenessIndicator
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/nisomi/SubjectCompletenessIndicator/

(Proposed property) completenessSubject
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/nisomi/completenessSubject/

(Proposed property) ConspectusLevel
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/nisomi/ConspectusLevel/
Impact on applications

The completenessLevel property would have an rdfs:domain of SubjectCompletenessIndicator and would be used only in this context.
About the proposers

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