From 6054cec44e5d96358a51f472f8df3db14f6c0d15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien@demarque.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:47:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added a list of recommended subject schemes

---
 contexts/default/README.md | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contexts/default/README.md b/contexts/default/README.md
index c2c376e..f532652 100644
--- a/contexts/default/README.md
+++ b/contexts/default/README.md
@@ -214,21 +214,28 @@ Subjects can also be expressed using an object with the following elements: `nam
 }
 ```
 
-In many fields and territories, a number of controlled vocabularies are in use to identify subjects. For example THEMA is used in the publishing industry to provide an international subject scheme.
-
-To indicate that a subject belongs to a particular scheme, the `scheme` element is available. The `scheme` must be a URI.
-
 The `code` element is available to provide the string that identifies the subject in a given scheme:
 
 ```json
 "subject": {
   "name": "Manga: Shonen",
   "sortAs": "Shonen",
-  "scheme": "http://www.editeur.org/151/Thema/",
+  "scheme": "https://ns.editeur.org/thema/",
   "code": "XAMG"
 }
 ```
 
+To indicate that a subject belongs to a particular scheme, the `scheme` element is available. The `scheme` must be a URI.
+
+This document identifies the following subject schemes along with a recommended URI value for them:
+| Scheme | URI |
+| ------- | --- |
+| BIC | <https://bic.org.uk/> |
+| BISAC | <https://www.bisg.org/#bisac> |
+| CLIL | <http://clil.org/> |
+| Thema | <https://ns.editeur.org/thema/> |
+
+
 ## Collections & series
 
 A Web Publication Manifest <span class="rfc">may</span> indicate that it belongs to one or multiple collections/series.