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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…
Thesauri and their three kinds of relationship
A thesaurus, as used in information science and literature retrieval, is essentially a controlled vocabulary following a standard structure, where all terms in the thesaurus have relationships to each other. These relationships are typically of three kinds: hierarchical…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
The goals of the Agora project
The Agora project started in October 2009 with the aim of facilitating context-driven browsing and search in heterogeneous museum collections. The context that unites these collections is pro- vided by historical events that can be linked to the collection objects, as…
Object-driven and event-driven exploration
We argue that collection access through events can remedy these bottlenecks as events provide the context that can link a variety of objects together, providing a more comprehensive overview than facets. To facilitate cross-collection access, we aim to develop an event…
Medical Subject Headings - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Medical subject headings
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences; it can also serve as a thesaurus that facilitates searching. Created and updated by the United States National Library of…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
A thesaurus is a network of related terms
A thesaurus, on the other hand, emphasizes other aspects of an index. It is basically a network of interrelated terms within a particular domain, and although it will often contain other information (such as definitions, examples of usage, etc.), the key feature of a thesaurus…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
A standard that leaves periods undefined
As its primary role is to enable exchange and integration between sources of cultural heritage, it does not go into the details necessary to create and manage a thesaurus of periods. It does not propose a standard format nor does it analyze how to define a period.
A thesaurus reflects an historical state of knowledge
It must be clear, that a thesaurus can never reflect absolute truth but only a historical stage of knowledge.
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…
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
What a thesaurus is
A thesaurus is a networked collection of controlled vocabulary terms. This means that a thesaurus uses associative relationships in addition to parent-child relationships. The expressiveness of the associative relationships in a thesaurus vary and can be as simple as “related…