Service Type Vocabulary
Annotation
Annotation services include all those which offer opinion about resources, either instead of or in addition to descriptive data. These opinions may be about quality, use, relevance to particular audiences, or relationships to other resources.
Archive
AskA
A service based on a question/answer model, not generally occurring in real tiime.
Augmentation
Enrichment
Augmentation services provide intentionally specialized and often less than complete metadata records to aid in the description of resources.
Data evaluation
Statement rating
Data evaluation services for metadata provide qualitative information relevant to aggregators or other users about metadata statements or descriptions.
Email and IM Reference
Email and IM reference services interact with users in real time or with quick turnaround, often focused on access problems.
Instant message reference
Equivalence
Equivalence services establish "same as" relationships between resources, either manually or algorithmically, They may also allow the creation of a normalized version of an ID to use in establishing the relationship.
Metadata
Rating
Rating services seek to apply quantitative or qualitative rankings to resources in relationship to others having similar properties or content.
Resource rating
Recommender
Reference
Review
Review services provide formal or informal evaluative information about the quality and/or usefulness of resources in a particular context.
Evaluation
Search
Discovery
Search services focus on the discovery of appropriate resources, and their appropriate display to users.
Selection
Selection services provide metadata for aggregations of resources gathered according to specific criteria.
Taxonomy
Terminology
Taxonomy services focus on the application of controlled vocabularies or classifications to resources, enabling enriched access.
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