For more information about HIVE, please see the project wiki.

Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) is an IMLS funded project involving the Metadata Research Center (MRC) at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina. The two and a half year project will demonstrate the HIVE model for dynamically integrating multiple controlled vocabularies.

HIVE is an automatic metadata generation approach that dynamically integrates discipline-specific controlled vocabularies encoded with the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS), a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. HIVE will assist content creators and information professionals with subject cataloging and will provide a solution to the traditional controlled vocabulary problems of cost, interoperability, and usability.

The HIVE project has three components:

• Building HIVE addresses the need to provide efficient, affordable, interoperable, and user friendly access to multiple controlled vocabularies during metadata creation activities.
• Sharing HIVE focuses on continuing education for library, museum, and archival professionals by reinforcing the importance of new enabling technologies that can assist them with developing and using controlled vocabularies.
• Evaluating HIVE involves examining how the HIVE model works both within the “test-bed” of the Dryad repository (a digital repository linking data objects supporting published research) and in the larger library, museum, and archival environment.

The HIVE approach and model is designed to serve many audiences, and cater to the growing controlled vocabulary needs of curatorial and cataloging information professionals in the library, museum, and archival community. As our “sandbox,” Dryad will use HIVE to help scientist-author contributors in the digital repository environment describe data objects in the field of evolutionary biology.

HIVE partners include vocabulary leaders from the Library of Congress, the Getty Research Institute (GRI), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS); an advisory board of national and international metadata and vocabulary experts; and workshop coordinators at leading university and information centers.

HIVE Advisory Board

• Jim Balhoff, Research Programmer, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
• Mike Frame, Director of Research & Technology for the USGS NBII Program
• Alistair Miles, Researcher, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• William Moen, Associate Professor, School, Director of TxCDK, and Director of Research, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas
• Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Associate Professor, University Carlos III of Madrid
• Joseph Shubitowski, Head, Information Systems, Getty Research Institute
• Barbara Tillett, Chief, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress
• Kathy Wisser, Director of Instructional Support, School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill
• Lisa Zolly, Chief Knowledge Manager, NBII Program

Workshop Coordinators and Locations

• Martha Hruska, Associate University Librarian, Collection Services; University of California, San Diego
• William E. Moen, Associate Professor, Director of TxCDK, and Director of Research, School of Library and Information Sciences; University of North Texas, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK)
• Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Associate Professor, Dpto. Biblioteconomía y Documentación; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Robert Wolven, Director of Library Systems & Bibliographic Control; Columbia University, New York City