RE: general type of controlled vocabulary

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discuss types of vocabularies generally and point to literature
 
Doug

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From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org on behalf of Tessa Sullivan
Sent: Wed 28/02/2007 21:08
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Subject: Re: general type of controlled vocabulary




I have just started to study this so I have not yet read some of the
central literature (e.g. Hodges) on this topic. But I have discussed
this at length with faculty & other doctoral students here at Univ North
Carolina.

That caveat aside, I rather like the typology in the NISO Z39.19
standard -- Guidelines for the Construction, Format and Management of
Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies.  They have 4 types and a list of
criteria for them:

List
    Ambiguity Control
Synonym ring
    synonym control
taxonomy
    Ambiguity Control
    synonym control
    Hierarchical relationships
Thesaurus
    Ambiguity Control
    synonym control
    Hierarchical relationships
    Associative relationships

And I found the definitions for the different criteria well developed
and easy to understand.

http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19.html

Hope this helps,
Tessa

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Tessa Sullivan
Ph.D student & Metadata Research Center Fellow
        School of Information and Library Sciences
        University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
tsullivan@unc.edu



Luis Bermudez wrote:
>
> I tried to classify different controlled vocabularies in my thesis, here:
> http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/376 (See chapter 9, page
> 93). It was based on Knowledge Organizations Systems by Hodge [1]:
>
> [1] G. Hodge, Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries:
> Beyond
> Traditional Authority Files The Digital Library Federation, Council on
> Library
> and Information Resources, Washington, DC, 2000.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Luis
>
> Luis Bermudez Ph.D.
> MMI Technical Lead - http://marinemetadata.org <http://marinemetadata.org/> 
> bermudez@mbari.org Tel:  (831) 775-1929
> MBARI 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing CA 95039-9644, USA
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>
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> On Feb 28, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Jakob Voss wrote:
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>>
>> Bob Mulrenin wrote:
>>
>>> We are planning some open source components and there are a couple of
>>> general issues and I would appreciate your feedback.
>>>
>>> What is the best practice for declaring the type of controlled
>>> vocabulary  as either either thesaurus, taxonomy, classification
>>> scheme,
>>> subject headings,  folksonomy, etc ?  Hopefully referencing a standard
>>> vocabulary of these types (?)
>>>
>>> It would help to be consistent with others and so that the tools  can
>>> adapt the management and presentation features, as well as offer
>>> services to external apps....
>>>
>>> <skos:ConceptScheme rdf:about="http://www.ukat.org.uk/thesaurus">
>>> <dc:type>http://..../thesaurus</dc:type>
>>
>> As Stella pointed out it's not that easy to tell what is a thesaurus,
>> taxonomy, classification scheme etc. I think it's more relevant what
>> specific features of a controlled vocabulary you want. I am working on a
>> general typology of knowledge organization systems based on properties
>> and features rather instead of types [1] but this is probably still too
>> vague and informal. With SKOS we should define a set of semantic,
>> formally defined features. Alistair started with the obvious condition
>> that should apply for all concept schemes [2].
>>
>> An additional features of a concept schemes could be that hierarchic
>> relations do form a tree - then it's a kind of taxonomy or
>> classification scheme and you can use other presentations than in a
>> multi-hierarchical concept scheme.
>>
>> What kind of open source components do you plan?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Jakob
>>
>>
>> [1] Jakob Voss (2007): Tagging, Folksonomy & Co - Renaissance of Manual
>> Indexing? http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701072
>>
>> [2] SKOS as a semantic extension of RDFS.
>> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SkosDesign/RdfsSemanticExtension
>>
>> --Jakob Voß <jakob.voss@gbv.de>, skype: nichtich
>> Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network
>> Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
>> +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de <http://www.gbv.de/> 
>>
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