Creating custom controlled vocabularies

Overview

Custom controlled vocabularies can be created in several ways...

• create a YAML file describing the terms - best for a small set of terms that do not change often
• create a database holding the terms - best for locally defined set of terms
• loading RDF data into the database
• write a local authority module - best for local authorities requiring more processing than simple search and fetch
• write (and contribute) a full authority module - best for accessing an external authority that does not yet have a module defined