Using the Audubon Core Controlled Vocabularies for subjectPart and subjectOrientation

When the Audubon Core Multimedia Resources Metadata Schema*1 was ratified, it included two terms for describing what being viewed in an image of organism: ac:subjectPart, to indicate morphological component organism view, and ac:subjectOrientation, describe direction or viewing angle subject part relative aquisition device. Although recommended that values those come from controlled vocabularies, no such vocabularies had been created by TDWG. In 2019, Views Controlled Vocabularies Task Group*2 chartered develop these terms. The result Simple Knowledge Organization System*3 (SKOS) concept schemes*4, 5, a mechanism determining which subjectOrientation are appropriate given subjectPart subjectParts various groups. this presentation, we briefly review vocabulary development process, key features give overview how can be used several example cases.