Tags / 14 quotes from 9 sources
#vocabulary
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…
Taxonomies, polyhierarchies and facets
A taxonomy is typically a controlled vocabulary with a hierarchical structure, with the understanding that there are different definitions of a hierarchy. Terms within a taxonomy have relations to other terms within the taxonomy. These are typically: parent/broader term…
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…
Final Vocabulary - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Final vocabulary
Richard Rorty coined the term "final vocabulary" which he explicated in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity to mean a set of communicative beliefs whose contingency the bearer more or less ignores. "Final vocabulary" concerns any such beliefs, whether held by one human or all…
Guidelines For The Construction, Format, And Management Of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. American National Standards Institute
Synonymy and the single preferred term
Synonymy occurs when a concept can be represented by multiple terms having the same or similar meanings. The desired content may be difficult to retrieve because it can be described by different but equivalent terminology. Words: Artificial consciousness, Biocomputers…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
We lack a neutral vocabulary for the mental
Now what exactly are these assumptions and why are they false? I cannot tell you that just yet. They do not admit of a quick summary without some preliminary work. The first half of this book is in large part about exposing and overcoming those assumptions. It is hard to…
The true and false parts of materialism and dualism
Materialism tries to say truly that the universe is entirely made up of physical particles that exist in fields of force and are often organized into systems. But it ends up saying falsely that there are no ontologically irreducible mental phenomena. Dualism tries to say truly…
Rdf Primer
RDF Schema is itself an RDF vocabulary
The RDF Schema facilities are themselves provided in the form of an RDF vocabulary; that is, as a specialized set of predefined RDF resources with their own special meanings. The resources in the RDF Schema vocabulary have URIrefs with the prefix…
Vocabulary versus namespace
In the rest of the Primer, the term vocabulary will be used when referring to a set of URIrefs defined for some specific purpose, such as the set of URIrefs defined by RDF for its own use, or the set of URIrefs defined by example.org to identify its employees. The term…
Vocabularies for types, properties and values
However, in addition to the basic techniques for describing things using RDF statements discussed so far, it should be clear that people or organizations also need a way to describe the vocabularies (terms) they intend to use in those statements, specifically, vocabularies for…
Rdfs Vs. Owl - Cambridge Semantics
1st Difference: Vocabular
1st Difference: Vocabulary Of the differences between RDFS and OWL, the most important is just that OWL provides a far, far larger vocabulary that you can use to say things. For example, OWL includes all your old friends from RDFS such as rdfs:type, rdfs:domain, and…
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
The many meanings of ontology
People use the word ontology to mean different things, e.g. glossaries & data dictionaries, thesauri & taxonomies, schemas & data models, and formal ontologies & inference. A formal ontology is a controlled vocabulary expressed in an ontology representation…
What Is An Ontology?
Ontological commitment
We use common ontologies to describe ontological commitments for a set of agents so that they can communicate about a domain of discourse without necessarily operating on a globally shared theory. We say that an agent commits to an ontology if its observable actions are…
Yes Again To The End Of The Digital Humanities ! Please ! | Roger Malina
I predict that 30 years from now the term “digital humanities” will have disappeared from our vocabulary
Astronomy went through a brief phase of “digital Astronomy” as a “transitional term” describing an emerging area of technical specialisation in astronomy ( a search search comes up pretty empty- as does google ngrams- digital astronomy has not been used as a term since the…