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 […]
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Building any kind of functioning service requires an initial assemblage of assumptions. Who’s the user? What do they expect in the way of service and interaction? Where do we start to engage them in the enterprise? I’ve always been a strong believer in diverse work teams, with a variety of backgrounds and experience brought to […]
What does cooking have to do with registries? Quite a lot, as it turns out. In this first guest appearance, Tom Baker describes the “cookbook” drafted by Alistair Miles that enables Apache HTTP servers to provide different responses for serving RDFS/OWL vocabularies, depending on the nature of the requestor.
It was gratifying to see at the NSDL Registry stakeholders meeting yesterday afternoon, that our initial feeling that this was the RIGHT time for a metadata registry was confirmed.
There was an interesting discussion at lunch about SKOS and I finally had something click about the taxonomy of terms for ontologies. Yeah, yeah I know, but give me a second… It seems to me that it goes like this:
1. In the beginng was a controlled vocabulary, and it was good, but it was a […]
