Controlled vocabularies such as thesauri, ontologies and authority files are referenced from bibliographic metadata. We provide access to controlled vocabularies mainly through the Finto service.
Allärs - Allmän tesaurus på svenska
Allärs is the Swedish translation of YSA - General Finnish Thesaurus.
- Description
The contents of Allärs increase as the contents of YSA increase. The thesaurus has a link to the corresponding term in the Finnish YSA thesaurus and the corresponding concept in the ALLFO ontology. Åbo Akademi University Library together with the National Library are responsible for maintaining Allärs.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
FGF - Finnish genre and form vocabulary
FGF (in Finnish known as SLM) is a bilingual (Finnish + Swedish) vocabulary for describing genres and forms of literature (both fiction and non-fiction) and music.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
Finnish Corporate Names
The Finnish corporate names data set is used by the National Library of Finland in the description of the national bibliography Fennica.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
ISIL Identifiers of Finnish Libraries
An ISIL identifies a library, an archive, a museum or a related organization, or one of its subordinate units.
- Description
Besides these institutions, an ISIL can also be assigned to agencies co-operating or doing business with these organizations, such as suppliers, publishers and government institutions. ISIL is intended to be used as a permanent identifier.
- User interface
- The ISIL Standard Identifiers of Finnish Libraries
- Data downloads
- API can be used to retrieve all ISIL identifiers using an empty query string
- APIs
- ISIL REST API
- License
- -
KOKO Ontology
KOKO is a collection of Finnish core ontologies, which have been merged together.
- Description
The ontologies include the General Finnish Ontology YSO and ontologies that extend and refine YSO such as the Ontology for Museum Domain, the Ontology of Applied Arts, and the Finnish Ontology of Photography.
- User interface
- Finto/KOKO
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC Attribution 3.0 International
Metadata thesaurus
Metadata thesaurus contains terms and expressions required in describing materials. The thesaurus is also suitable for selecting headings displayed in user interfaces.
- Description
The thesaurus has been organised according to entity-relationship structure of RDA text and FRBR concept model.
The use of the terms in the thesaurus standardises the vocabulary of descriptive metadata and simultaneously harmonises description in order to promote productiveness.The aim of the thesaurus is also to make it easier to produce metadata by collecting vocabulary and expressions needed in description as well as to clarify concepts related to them.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
PLC - Finnish Public Libraries Classification System
The classification system for Finnish public libraries PLC (known by its Finnish acronym YKL) is an adaptation of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
- Description
- PLC is a decimal classification, used in libraries to place books on shelves based on their principal subject matter.
- User interface
- Finto/YKL
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
SEKO - Finnish Medium of Performance Thesaurus
SEKO is a thesaurus in Finnish which covers instruments, voices etc. used in the performance of musical works.
- Description
SEKO is linked to the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
UDC Summary
The Multilingual Universal Decimal Classification Summary.
- Description
UDC Summary (udcS) for short - represents a selection of around 2,600 classes extracted from the UDC Master Reference File (UDC MRF) 2011 which contains over 70,000 classes. The selection comprises main numbers, common auxiliary numbers and special auxiliary numbers and it represents even coverage of all areas of knowledge as contained by the scheme.
The version published in Finto is a trilingual classification extracted from the main UDC Summary SKOS file and contains labels in Finnish, Swedish and English.
- User interface
- Finto/UDCS
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
YSA - General Finnish Thesaurus
YSA is a general thesaurus in Finnish which covers all fields of research and knowledge, which contains the most common terms and geographical names used in content description.
- Description
YSA is a tool for providing index terms for printed and electronic materials as well as subject-based information retrieval. The thesaurus works as a shared language between information depositaries and searchers, which improves the ease of finding information.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
YSE - concept suggestions for YSO
YSE is a collection of concepts that have been suggested for inclusion in YSO, but they have not yet been accepted.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0
YSO - General Finnish Ontology
General Finnish Ontology YSO is a trilingual ontology consisting mainly of general concepts.
- Description
YSO has been founded on the basis of concepts in Finnish cultural sphere. As an indexing tool it is best applicable when indexed material is interdiscliplinary and its themes vary to a great extent.
- User interface
- Finto/YSO
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC Attribution 4.0 International
YSO places
YSO places is a multilingual gazetteer.
- Description
YSO Places contains administrative and geographical areas, both current and historical, that are selected based on the subject indexing needs of memory organizations. About two thirds of the places are within the current borders of Finland.
- User interface
- YSO places in Finto
- Data downloads
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs
- Linked Data, Finto REST API
- License
- CC0