ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005

Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies

Presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies. It focuses on controlled vocabularies that are used for the representation of content objects in knowledge organization systems including lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauri.

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ISO 2788:1986
Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri (see also last entry on this page)

The recommendations are intended to ensure consistent practice within a single indexing agency, or between different agencies (for example, members of a network). These recommendations relate to monolingual thesauri, without reference to the special requirements of multilingual thesauri. (Note: currently under review for update)

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ISO 5964:1985
Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri

Should be used in conjunction with ISO 2788, and regarded as an extension of the scope of the monolingal guidelines. The majority of procedures and recommendations contained in ISO 2788 are equally valid for a multilingual thesaurus. This applies particularly to general procedures, for example, the forms of terms, the basic thesauri relationships, and management operations such as evaluation and maintenance. Distinction is made between preferred terms and non-preferred terms.

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OWL Web Ontology Language Guide
W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004

The World Wide Web as it is currently constituted resembles a poorly mapped geography. Our insight into the documents and capabilities available are based on keyword searches, abetted by clever use of document connectivity and usage patterns. The sheer mass of this data is unmanageable without powerful tool support. In order to map this terrain more precisely, computational agents require machine-readable descriptions of the content and capabilities of Web accessible resources. These descriptions must be in addition to the human-readable versions of that information.

The OWL Web Ontology Language is intended to provide a language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications.

This document demonstrates the use of the OWL language to

  1. formalize a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes,

  2. define individuals and assert properties about them, and

  3. reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language.

The sections are organized to present an incremental definition of a set of classes, properties and individuals, beginning with the fundamentals and proceeding to more complex language components.

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ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies (currently ISO 2788 and ISO 5964)

Work has been under way since May 2008 to revise and extend the International standards for thesauri, ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The content of these two standards, plus a lot more material needed to support interoperability, will be combined in a new standard ISO 25964, as follows:

The work is managed by a Working Group known as ISO TC46/SC9/WG8, which has participants from 13 countries and is led by Stella Dextre Clarke of the UK. The Secretariat is provided by NISO USA). See official website at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/iso25964. The existing British Standard BS 8723 (published in 5 parts during 2005-2008) is being used as a basis for the international work.

A draft of Part 1 of ISO 25964, which will have the number ISO DIS 25964-1, is scheduled for release in the last quarter of 2009, when it will be available for public comment. To obtain a copy, ask the national standards body in your country.

Until DIS 25964-1 is issued, the most recent published news is in the ASIS&T Bulletin, at
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-08/OctNov08_DextreClark.pdf&nbsp

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