Revision of British Standards BS5723 and BS6723 for brief progress report.

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  • Alan Gilchrist The Cura Consortium, Reino Unido

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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v12i1.1588

Abstract

The current standards for monolingual and multilingual thesauri are long overdue for an update. This applies to the international standards ISO 2788 and ISO 5964, as well as the corresponding national standards in several countries and the American standard ANSI/NISO Z39.19. Work is now under way in the UK and in the USA to revise and extend the standards, with particular emphasis on interoperability needs in our world of vast electronic networks. Work in the UK is starting with the British standards, in the hope of leading on to one international standard to serve all. Some of the issues still under discussion include the treatment of facet analysis, coverage of additional types of controlled vocabulary such as classification schemes, taxonomies and ontologies, and mapping from one vocabulary to another.

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Published

2006-06-30

How to Cite

Gilchrist, A. (2006). Revision of British Standards BS5723 and BS6723 for brief progress report. Scire: Knowledge Representation and Organization (ISSNe 2340-7042; ISSN 1135-3716), 12(1), 99–107. https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v12i1.1588

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