Taxonomy Standards by: Majorie M.K. Hlava
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Todd’s commentary: This whole conference really opened my eyes to how important taxonomies are in other fields. There was a very humourous debate session during the conference that I didn’t manage to take notes on, but Majorie had an incredible amount of insight on taxonomy standards.
Taxonomy Standards – Majorie M.K. Hlava
President – Access Innovations, Inc. – Data Harmony
Vocabulary and Terminology Standards
What are the for?
· Accuracy
· Disambiguation
· Recall
· Precision
· Relevance
· Removing noise
· Increasing hits
Vocabulary control
Define scope of term (meaning)
Equivalence between synonyms
-single conept
Distinguish homographs
Mercury – car, planet, metal?
Nice to have
· Equivalence – synonyms – rogets
· Associative – related terms
· Hierarchies – taxonomy view
· History – development of the term
· Notes – help the user
· Notation – different way to sort
· Display – how to show the terms
Where do they come from?
· Ansi/NISO
o National information standards organization
· ISO
o International standards organization
· W3C – world wide web consortium
· US OMB – united states office of management and budgets · IFLA
Effectiveness of Indexing
Vocabulary Control
Facets
Interoperability
· Same content – different domains
· Different vocabularity – same domain
· Degree of specificity / granularity
· Handling of synonyms
· Search methodology
o Z39.50
o Pre coordinated
o Post coordinated
Interoperability
o Merges vocabularies
o Merging databases
o Indixing using single vocab
o Federated searching
o Maping or crosswalks
o Decide on master vocab
Z39.19 – 2006 – Controlled Vocabularies – What’s New
NISO.org
Other methods – Zeng
Derivation modeling
Translation and adaption
Satellited vocabularies
Node or leaf indexing
Multiple senses for the same noun in a lexical database
Example: Bridge
W3c
OWL – Web Ontology Language
RDF – Resource description format
Topic maps
SKOS – simple knowledge organization systems
o Which community to serve?
o Build on the current standard
o Might make this link next
Other things to watch –
SIMILE – supported through the open source community.
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