These controlled vocabularies are under development at SERC. They vary widely in terms of refinement and the
degree to which they have been tested with users. None represents a finished product. Caveat emptor.
Primary Vocabularies: Apply Everywhere- Disciplinary Subject Vocabulary 10
This topical/subject vocabulary intended to reflect standard academic disciplinary structures. Should be applied everywhere.
- Resource Type 20
Should be applied everywhere. Describes what an item *is* and NOT what it is *about*. This line get (intentionally) mushy with the last 4 'resource' terms.
Secondary Vocabularies: Apply on all Resources as Relevant - Activity Inquiry Level 101
The degree to which a given teaching activity guides/scaffolds student work. Should be applied to all activities which clearly exemplify a particular level of inquiry.
- Cross-Cutting Themes 111
High-interest/Hot themes for educators (especially geoscience). Should be applied to all activities or other resources that address one of these themes in a significant way.
- Grade Level 121
Grade Level indicates the educational setting in which the material is intended to be used. This vocabulary should NOT be used for resources where no clear educational setting is intended. The 'intent' should come from the author or other 'expert' who has indicated this resource is appropriate at a particular level. It should NOT reflect a guess on the part of the cataloger as where it might conceivably be useful. It need not correspond to the educational level of the intended direct user. For example, a lesson plan for a 1st grade classroom will likely be designed to be read by a (college educated) teacher but should be cataloged as k-2 and not 15-16.
NOTE: To be included in the Intro browse, items must have the "Introductory Level" term checked.
- Learning Environment 131
Where teaching activity takes place. Should be used for all activities which have an obvious venue.
- Print Resource Type 141
This resource type matches the EndNote type vocabulary. Making each term all caps should match EndNotes usage. Only used for EndNote imports, or populated through synonyms.
- Quantitative Skills Vocabulary 2.0 151
Describes the skills relevant to a particular teaching activity. Should be applied to all activities that have a significant quantitative component.
- Ready for Use 161
The degree to which a given teaching activity has been used/tested and the completeness with which it is documented. Can also apply to descriptions of courses to discriminate between complete course descriptions and sketchier outlines.
Specialized Vocabularies: Used for Particular Projects - ACM Schools 200
no definition
- Affective Domain Vocabulary 210
Use for activities that are relevant to the affective domain (select the term at the bottom of the list for that). The other terms are only for the affective domain dilemmas, so do not use them for activities or catalog records.
- Classes of Earth Materials 220
Used in the Cutting Edge petrology module. Feel free to tag this vocab for petrology resources. Also, this term can be used in any new collection that wants to add another "dimension" of faceted searching. If you do that, please change this definition so we know where else this vocab is being used.
- Climate Literacy Principles 230
Vocab that maps to the Climate Literacy Principals and Fundamental Concepts. Used to support the climate change collection work. Used by Mark M only....
- Course Type Vocabulary 240
Use for any course page that is a SERC page. Don't use for external websites that are also course pages.
- Cretaceous Vocabulary 250
Used for the IntRe cretaceous module. Feel free to add these to catalog records if applicable.
- Data Activity: Use 260
Describes how student interact with data in a data-rich activity.
- Data Derived Materials 270
Indicates the resources contains materials derived from primary data (e.g. data visualizations). Only used to drive the "data sources and tools" browse in Using Data.
- Data Set: Data Source 280
Indicates the source of the data in a data set.
- Environmental Policy 290
This vocab can be deleted. It's been integrated into the discipline vocabs.
- Extreme Environments 300
this term is used in the MLER collection for microorganisms that live in extreme environments such as without oxygen, at high pressures, etc.
- Geochemistry Applications 310
These are used in the Cutting Edge geochem module to allow for a 2-way sort of resources. Feel free to add these terms for both catalog records and activities related to geochemistry.
- Geologic Setting 320
These are used in the Cutting Edge petrology module to allow for a lot of different options for sorting of resources. Feel free to tag this vocab for petrology resources. Also, this term can be used in any new collection that wants to add another "dimension" of faceted searching. If you do that, please change this definition so we know where else this vocab is being used.
- Geology and Human Health Subject Vocab 330
I think these should be added to the discipline vocabs. Anyway, they are from the Cutting Edge Geo and Health workshop and they can be added to activities or catalog records as applicable.
- Geophysical Instrument Type 340
Used in the geophysical instrument registry only. Don't apply to other things.
- Introductory Earth System Topic Vocabulary 350
Topical vocabulary aligned with entry level earth system course needs. Used for Starting Point, Cutting Edge Intro collections, or any resource that would fit into an intro-level course. Tagging with this term PLUS the grade Level -> Introductory Level will make it show up in the Cutting Edge intro activities collection.
- Montana Road Log Vocabulary 360
Use only to add road logs to the Montana road log collection. This vocab covers the types of geology seen on field trips.
- MT Road Logs Geographic Location 370
Use only to add road logs to the Montana road log collection. This vocab denotes the location covered by the field trip.
- MT Road Logs Geologic Province 380
Use only to add road logs to the Montana road log collection. This vocab denotes the geologic province covered by the field trip.
- Ocean Environments 390
Used in the Cutting Edge oceanography module. Feel free to tag this vocab for oceanography resources. Also, this term can be used in any new collection that wants to add another "dimension" of faceted searching. If you do that, please change this definition so we know where else this vocab is being used.
- Quantitative Skills Activity Type 400
Defunct vocab predating Resource Type. Do not use.
- Research on Learning 410
For references/resources describing research on how people learn; used for the Pedagogy in Action portal search of research on learning.
- Science Background Required 420
Indicates how accessible a data site is. Only used to drive the Data Sources and Tools page in Using Data. Should be used on cataloged resources which are websites that provide access to data.
- Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks 430
This is used in the Cutting Edge sed geo internet collection. This allows a 2-way sort of resources. If you are tagging sed resources, consider adding this one. This vocab has only 2 terms: clastic and carbonate.
- SERC Subject Vocabulary 440
This is old, do not use it anymore. Use the discipline vocab instead.
- Solid Earth Processes 450
Used in the Cutting Edge petrology module. Feel free to tag this vocab for petrology resources. Also, this term can be used in any new collection that wants to add another "dimension" of faceted searching. If you do that, please change this definition so we know where else this vocab is being used.
- Teacher Preparation 460
Used in the Teacher Prep website to delineate between materials for pre-service and in-service teachers.
- Tectonic Setting 470
These are used in the Cutting Edge geomorphology, petrology and oceanography modules to allow for a lot of different options for sorting of resources. Feel free to tag this vocab for geomorph, petrology or oceanography resources. Also, this term can be used in any new collection that wants to add another "dimension" of faceted searching. If you do that, please change this definition so we know where else this vocab is being used.
- Woburn Resource Type 480
Used in A Civil Action: Teaching the Woburn Toxic Trial materials browse. Not used outside of that site.
- Woburn Topics 490
Used in A Civil Action: Teaching the Woburn Toxic Trial materials browse. Not used outside of this website.
- Yellowstone Topics 500
Used in the IntRe Yellowstone module. Feel free to add this vocab if you have a resource related to Yellowstone.
System Vocabularies: For Internal Use - APLU STEM ed centers audience 1000
Describes the target audience for university-based STEM Education Centers listed in the APLU STEM Ed Centers profile collection.
- ACM Instrument Type 1001
no definition
- Admin Site News 1005
no definition
- AGU Resources 1010
no definition
- Analytical Instrument Type 1013
no definition
- Analytical Instrument Type delete this 1015
no definition
- bad Eyes in the Skies Research Project Type 1017
no definition
- Benchmarks for Science Literacy 1020
no definition
- Carleton LTC Presentation Topic 1025
Topic of LTC presentation. If a presentation doesn't fit in any category, don't tag.
- Carleton LTC Presentation Year 1030
Year and term of LTC presentation.
- Cataloging Project 1035
no definition
- Catalog Record Origin 1040
no definition
- Catalog Record Status 1045
no definition
- CE Hazards Collections 1045
no definition
- CISMI Student Research Department 1046
no definition
- CISMI Student Research Funder 1047
no definition
- CISMI Student Research Year 1048
no definition
- CLEAN Annotation Step 1050
no definition
- CLEAN April 2013 Camp Teams 1051
no definition
- CLEAN Assign Second Round Reviews 1055
no definition
- CLEAN Aug 2011 Camp Teams 1060
no definition
- CLEAN Aug 2012 Camp Teams 1060
no definition
- CLEAN Author Contact 1065
no definition
- CLEAN CC Ed Project Scale 1070
This vocab was created for use in browsing the CLEAN Climate Change Education Projects minicollection
- CLEAN Climate and Energy vocabs 1075
no definition
- CLEAN Climate Literacy Principles 1080
Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts.
- CLEAN Complete Cataloging of Accepted Items 1085
no definition
- CLEAN Cutting Edge Science 1090
no definition
- CLEAN Dataset Use 1095
no definition
- CLEAN Editorial Board Outcome 1097
no definition
- CLEAN Energy Awareness Principles and Vocabulary 1100
no definition
- CLEAN Final Acceptance into Collection 1105
no definition
- CLEAN Initial RC Review 1110
no definition
- CLEAN June 2011 Camp Teams 1113
no definition
- CLEAN LTER 2013 Camp Teams 1114
no definition
- CLEAN May 2012 Camp Teams 1115
no definition
- CLEAN Nov 2011 Camp Teams 1117
no definition
- CLEAN Regional Focus 1119
no definition
- CLEAN Regional Focus -Old 1120
no definition
- CLEAN Resource Type 1125
no definition
- CLEAN Review Camp 1 Teams 1130
no definition
- CLEAN Review Camp Outcome 1135
no definition
- CLEAN Review Collector Assignment 1140
no definition
- CLEAN Review Cycle 1145
no definition
- CLEAN Review Ingest 1150
no definition
- CLEAN Review Initial Vetting 1155
no definition
- CLEAN Review Scientific Review 1160
no definition
- CLEAN Science Review Status 1165
no definition
- CLEAN Second RC Review Outcome 1170
no definition
- CLEAN Second Round Holding and Inappropriate 1175
no definition
- CLEAN Second Round Review 1180
no definition
- CLEAN Selected for Camp 1185
no definition
- Climate Setting 1190
Used to list the setting in which a particular activity or example is appropriate or for which it was designed. Originally, created for Cutting Edge Geomorphology Vignettes collection.
- Complex Systems 1195
no definition
- Course Size 1200
no definition
- CUR Field Case Studies 1203
no definition
- Curriculum for Bioregion Disciplines 1205
no definition
- Curriculum for Bioregion Scale 1210
no definition
- Curriculum for Bioregion Topical Vocabulary 1215
no definition
- Curriculum for Bioregions Faculty Learning Community 1220
Used for Washington Center's Curriculum for Bioregion initiative to separate activities, courses, and essays contributed from different working groups.
- Custom Collections 1225
One-off terms to force an item to be included in a particular collection. Often this is used to 'select' activities to be exposed in particular activity mini-collections for PIA.
- Cutting Edge Activity Review Groups 1230
no definition
- Cutting Edge Activity Review Outcome 1235
no definition
- Cutting Edge Activity Review Submission 1240
no definition
- Cutting Edge Activity Review Triage 1245
no definition
- Cutting Edge Activity Reviewer Assignment 1250
no definition
- Cutting Edge Review Author Contact 1255
no definition
- Cutting Edge Review Final Approval 1260
Records whether the editor has approved of the assigned review outcome.
- Deep Earth Vocabulary 1265
This vocabulary is used to aggregate resources for the 2009 CE Deep Earth virtual workshop. Subterms may be added in the future.
- DIG Blueprint Review Group 1266
no definition
- DIG Review Cataloging 1267
no definition
- DIG Resource Final Approval 1268
no definition
- DIG Review Vocabulary Assignment 1268
no definition
- DIG Resource Reviewer Assignment Count 1269
no definition
- DIG Resource Review Count 1269
no definition
- DLESE Resource Type 1270
no definition
- DLESE Subject Vocabulary 1275
no definition
- Earth and Mind Blog Topics 1280
no definition
- Earth and Space Boston vocab 1285
Topical vocab developed for the Earth and space Science course offered summer of 2010 at MIT.
- Earth Science Literacy Principles 1287
no definition
- Econ JEL 1290
Journal of Economic Literature codes
- EET Tool Type 1295
no definition
- Energy Literacy Principles 1297
no definition
- Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines 1300
no definition
- Eyes in the Skies Research Presentation Type 1305
no definition
- First Day of Class Activity Focus/Goal 1310
Describes the focus or learning goals of activities submitted for the Starting Point module on the 1st Day of Class.
- For Internal Use Only 1311
To keep track of pages that have hand-coded lists rather than browses, such as visualization collections and lists of selected references.
- Geochemistry LowT/HighT 1312
no definition
- GeoMapApp Minilesson 1313
no definition
- Geomorphology Vocabulary 1315
Geomorphology subset vocab. Subsumed into Disciplinary Vocab.
- Geophysics Resource Vocabulary 1320
This vocabulary is for categorizing resources developed for the Cutting Edge Teaching Geophysics in the 21st Century workshop and topical area.
- Geospatial Technology Tool 1325
no definition
- High School Subject Vocabulary 1330
no definition
- Highest Degree Granted by a Department 1335
no definition
- InTeGrate Materials Reviewer Assignment 1336
no definition
- InTeGrate Materials Review Completion 1337
no definition
- InTeGrate Final Materials Review 1338
no definition
- InTeGrate Materials Review Submissions 1339
no definition
- K-8 Subjects 1340
no definition
- Margins Initiative 1345
For use in determining which initiative Mini-lessons speak to.
- Mellon 23 Case Study Program Category 1350
no definition
- Mellon 23 Case Study Program Scope 1355
no definition
- MYN Institution Type 1357
no definition
- NAGT Activity Source 1360
This vocabulary is used to tease apart the contributions to the NAGT teaching activity collection based on what meeting session they can from or that they didn't come from a session at all. For internal use. No need to display in the browses.
- NAGT News 1365
Vocab used in parsing which NAGT News stories and Community Announcements are displayed in which parts of the NAGT and Section website.
- NAGT Rock and Mineral Exchange Vocab 1367
no definition
- NAGT Section 1370
Use this vocabulary when you need to browse a collection of resources based on the section structure of NAGT.
- National Council for Geographic Education Standards 1375
no definition
- National Science Education Standards 1377
no definition
- New Pedagogic Methods 1380
Teaching methods and related topics, such as course design and teaching specific skills
- News Type 1385
Resource Type vocab for news items. Still under development.
- NSDL Education Level 1390
A mapping from our internal grade level vocab to the corresponding NSDL terms
- NSDL Resource Type 1393
no definition
- Page Type 1395
don't mess with this unless your initials are spf
- Parallel Computing: Computational Model 1400
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: Concepts 1405
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: Language Support 1410
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: Operating System Support 1415
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: Physical Resource Support 1420
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: Possible Course Use 1425
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: Recommended Teaching Level 1430
Developed for St. Olaf/Macalester collaboration on Parallel Computing in the Computer Science Curriculum.
- Parallel Computing: TCPP Curriculum Elements 1435
Based on the elements described in the NSF/IEEE-TCPP Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing – Core Topics for Undergraduates: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/index.php
- Pedagogic Service Contributing Project 1440
All activities that show up in PIA collections, and the index.html page of pedagogic modules should be tagged with term from this vocab. If you add a new term for a new project you MUST let Sean know as there's some additional jiggering that needs to be done for each new project.
- Pedagogic Topics 1445
Old version of the New Pedagogic Methods vocab
This is a flat list and should be a one-to-one correspondence with existing pedagogic modules.
- PIA Page Type 1450
Used to provide a browse across pia. All ped modules should be tagged with the teaching method term.
Activity is automatically populated by resource type.
Print resource term is handled automatically by synonym.
RoL Bib web site term is automatically handled via synonym for items with both page type catalog and RoL vocab.
- Project Funding Source 1455
Developed for NNN collection of programs/projects promoting quantitative reasoning. Could be used elsewhere if necessary, but shouldn't be changed.
- QSSDL Subject Vocabulary 1460
no definition
- Quant Skills Activity Source 1465
This vocab is used to pull out subsets of QS activities that were generated at particular workshops. Vocab is built into appropriate browses and generally wouldn't be exposed.
- Resources Associated with Organizations 1467
Use to track resources either produced by or using data/materials from an outside organization. Allows easy collation of all materials which are related.
- Resources related to Earthscope 1470
no definition
- Review Processes 1475
no definition
- Review Types 1480
vocab for defining the review status of particular activity collections.
- SECEIJ Article Type 1485
no definition
- SECEIJ Page Type 1490
no definition
- SENCER Civic Issues - PAIS 1495
no definition
- SISL Math Course Level 1496
no definition
- SISL Sustainability Vocab 1496
no definition
- SGT Review Bins 1497
no definition
- Share Page as Catalog Record 1498
This vocab is used to over-ride the default decisions about whether local pages
are exposed as catalog records for external harvesting. Normal defaults only
share activities and other mini-collections (dependant on project). Use this to specifically exclude some of those pages. Or to include pages like index.html that have appropriate descriptions for use in external catalogs
- TEKSS Earth and Space Science 1498
no definition
- Subject Vocab for HSG2013 1498
This vocab was developed for the HSG 2013 workshop for use on the activity submission forms.
- Topics for Geodesy Curriculum Inventory 1499
no definition
Defunct Vocabularies: Do Not Use - Sencer Educational Theme 1500
no definition
- SENCER Institution Type 1505
no definition
- Quantitative Skills Vocabulary 1.0 1510
no definition
- SENCER News Type 1510
no definition
- Sencer Resource Type 1515
no definition
- SENCER Subject Discipline 1520
SENCER
- Sencer Subject Vocabulary 1525
no definition
- SENCER-Assessment 1530
no definition
- SENCER-Learning Strategies 1535
no definition
- SERC Office Resource Vocabulary 1540
no definition
- SERC Page Type 1545
These should be applied across all SERC pages. It is used in the SERC-wide search.
Activity, Course Description and Teaching Method are all already populated via synonyms from Resource Type, PIA page type.
Datasheet is automatically populated based on a default vocab in that module.
Project Site and Workshop need to be applied manually. They should *only* be applied to the index.html page of the corresponding module.
- SERC Physical Library Status 1550
no definition
- SSAC Collection 1555
THIs is defunct. Use the project vocab
- SSAC Excel Skills 1560
no definition
- SSAC Quantitative Concepts 1565
no definition
- SSAC Subjects 1570
no definition
- Type of Degree Program 1575
Vocab developed to disambiguate the degree programs housed in Building Strong Departments. Expanded to include degree programs contributed through InTeGrate and SAGE2YC.
- Urban Geology 1580
no definition
- Using GIS and Remote Sensing topics vocab 1585
This vocab was developed for the 2010 Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Teach Geoscience in the 21st Century CE workshop.
It is synonymed to contribute resources to the Crosscutting Themes vocab but does not accept things in the other direction per BTewksbury's wish.
- Vignette Type 1590
Created for Cutting Edge Geomorphology workshop Vignette collection. Unsure exactly what the terms mean. JM
- Where to Publish News 1595
This vocabulary controls where a given news item is exposed: which news browses it shows up in.
- Starting Point Earth System Vocabulary 1600
no definition
- Whitaker Center Activity Source 1600
This vocab is only used in the Whitaker Center site to show different subsets of their activity collection in different browses.
- GSA 03 Using Data Vocab 1700
no definition
- Petrology Subject Vocabulary 1750
no definition
- Petrology Instrument Type 1760
no definition
- Petrology Instrument Application 1770
no definition
- Course Goals Syllabus Vocabulary 1780
no definition
- States 1790
no definition
- do not use 2360
Do not use! This vocab can be deleted. It's been changed and integrated into the discipline vocabs. We should check for any records that don't already have synonyms applied.