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

[Bjarne Heltved <BH@itst.dk>]

Maewyn and Duane

 

In Amsterdam we agreed not to create one taxonomy. I agree with Maewyn - it is very important that we clarify what we mean by the different terms - much more important than create new ones. In Amsterdam we also agreed that we do not talk taxonomies, but common (or controlled) vocabulary for government use.

 

Maewyns draft "The taxonomy glossary" is a very good initiative to clarify terms who has been widely used (and abused). I will give som comments on the draft later this week.

 

Bjarne Heltved  

 

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

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)


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>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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>This is the initial draft of the glossary of taxonomy related terms.
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