RE: [egov] Groups - Taxonomy glossary 2004-06-14 uploaded

["Martin Bryan" <Martin.Bryan@csw.co.uk>]

Maewyn

Congratulations on bringing together great set of definitions of relevant
terms, but why did you not use half of them?

One term seems to be missing, Topic Maps. The following extracts from ISO
13250 can be used to summarise them:

"Topic maps enable multiple, concurrent views of sets of information
objects. Topic maps can be used to link topics together in such a way as to
enable navigation between them. This capability can be used for creating
thesaurus-like interfaces to corpora, knowledge bases, etc."

I would like to suggest the following additional terms that can be
associated with your existing definitions, the vast majority of which are
taken from your current definitions:

C12 Business Information Entity (BIE), Generic identifier (GI), Entity,
Instance
C13 Attribute, Property
C14 Content Model Fragment, Entity Fragment
C16 Datatype Range
C17 Datatype Pattern (I have problems with distinguishing Syntax encoding
scheme from Encoding scheme here)
C18 Classification, Subject Directory (and Vocabulary should be Controlled
Vocabulary, for reasons well explained in the definitions)
C20.2 Classification, Directory/Folder/File Tree
C20.3 Polyhierarchical Taxonomy (but not Taxonomy), Multifaceted
Classification (but not Classification Scheme as Classification schemes
should only contain See Also type links, not direct hierarchical links)
C20.4 Topic Map
C30 Topic Map, Crosswalk
C31 Topic Map, Crosswalk, Ontology, Metadata Mapping (rather than Mapping)

Please note that in the definition of C15 you need to remove "of an". 

Martin Bryan

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