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About Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies
Controlled vocabularies as authority files
A controlled vocabulary, also called an authority file, is an authoritative list of terms to be used in indexing (human or automated). A controlled vocabulary for a project might actually include multiple authority files for different kinds of terms. Controlled vocabularies are…
Strategic Reading, Ontologies, And The Future Of Scientific Publishing
Scientists strive to avoid unnecessary reading
Scientists have always read strategically, working with many articles simultaneously to search, filter, compare, arrange, link, annotate, and analyze fragments of content.Now, however, two important trends are interacting to support and intensify the effectiveness of these…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Classical thesaurus functions
The data that relate terminology and concept definition support the classical thesaurus functions (Soergel 1996, Doerr and Fundulaki 1998): guidance for the user to find a concept in the thesaurus, clarification of its meaning, unique identifiers to be used for effective…