Bob DuCharme is taking a course and is pleased to find a standard that defines taxonomy, quoting from the ANSI/NISO Z39.19 standard, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, and discussing the various classes of controlled vocabulary.
Well worth reading…
What is a taxonomy? - bobdc.blog
I’ve described ontologies to people as being like […]
Archive for July, 2008
Jeepers, no posts for 3+ months and then two in one day! The truth is that I hadn’t realized the last post was still sitting in my drafts folder more than a month after I wrote it.
Moving on…
A number of folks have been interested in installing the Registry, especially since we’ve talked before about […]
If you’ve been watching the Registry closely (and we know you have), you’ll have noticed that a few weeks ago we started supporting the registration of metadata schemas. It’s not finished and far from perfect, but the perfect can often be the enemy of the good and at the moment it’s, well, good enough for […]
