Use COAR Controlled Vocabularies to enhance the Interoperability across repositories and with other related systems | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

"As currently the usage of consistent controlled terms is still not widespread across repositories, and these latter often use local terms and/or tend to apply too broad concepts that do not qualify the resource properly, standard and widely-shared controlled vocabularies may bring many benefits for harvesters.

To fill this gap, the COAR Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Board has:

• analyzed existing vocabularies and dictionaries – used in the frame of open access repositories, scientific publishing platforms and research data management projects;
• chosen the most appropriate and widely shared concepts and terms (labels),
• defined, accordingly, the following five COAR controlled vocabularies:"