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 taxonomies, except that you (or more likely, people in your field) get to make up new, specialized relationships beyond those standardized for thesauri. For example, in legal publishing, a higher court ruling could have the relationship property “cite” to a lower court ruling, with potential values such as “overturns” or “affirms”.
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