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Subject: Re: [egov] Groups - Taxonomy glossary 2004-06-14 uploaded
- From: Maewyn.Cumming@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
- To: Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:25:43 +0100
Duane (and Einstein)
I don't think anyone ever meant us to
all use one taxonomy - 'harmonising taxonomies' means (as far as I can
remember) getting multiple taxonomies to work together, rather than merging
them into one entity. As you say, there isn't one taxonomy that will do
the job for us all (and we would never agree on the terms anyway!).
I don't remember 'harmony reconciliation'
- its a bit vague - but 'taxonomy reconciliation' may be valuable.
The problem is that we may be just creating more terms rather than clarifying
what we mean by the ones we have.
What do others think?
Maewyn
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Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>
14/06/2004 20:42
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Maewyn:
Looks good. I have one question however. In Amsterdam we talked
about
taxonomy harmonization and I was fairly sure we decided that "Harmony
Reconciliation" may be a better goal/term.
I am speaking just for myself but I firmly believe the notion that the
whole world will use one harmonized vocabulary is not valid. I think
it
will never be this way and we need to focus on a mechanism for
reconciliation of existing taxonomies rather than trying to force
harmonization.
Einstein said "When solving a problem you must not use the same thinking
you did when you created the problem". The problem has been
created by
those who did work under the auspices that the entire world will use one
taxonomy. One will never work and I believe going forward on the
basis
that there will be more than one taxonomy will make our work more relevant.
Duane Nickull
(Speaking only for himself)
maewyn.cumming@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk wrote:
>The document Taxonomy glossary 2004-06-14 has been submitted by Maewyn
Cumming (maewyn.cumming@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk) to the eGov Harmonising
Taxonomies SC document repository.
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>Document Description:
>This is the initial draft of the glossary of taxonomy related terms.
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>Download Document:
>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/egov-taxonomy/download.php/7242/Taxonomy%20glossary%202004-06-14
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>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/egov-taxonomy/document.php?document_id=7242
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