[sigCR] How many controlled vocabularies?

[Luz Quiroga]

Aloha Joseph

The semantic web project has a list that I would say it should be a good
sample, at least in theory
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Ontology

I would be interested in your findings!

Luz Marina Quiroga



On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Joseph Tennis <jtennis at uw.edu> wrote:

> Friends and colleagues,
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows how many controlled vocabularies exist in
> the world today?  I am aware of the OBO Foundry, Taxobank, and I have
> started to collect lists from other places, but I don't have a clue as to
> whether these are a representative sample or not.  I can only start to
> understand if I know how many are out there (in every different version).
>  Does anyone have an idea?  Does anyone know where I might look?  Does the
> SAS collection at Toronto serve as a complete inventory of these things?
>
> And by controlled vocabulary I mean classification schemes, thesauri,
> terminologies, ontologies, etc.  Anything that is a restricted set of
> semantics used in the process of indexing or labeling.  Yes, that is very
> general ;-)
>
> Thanks for any and all help you can provide.
>
> Sincerely,
> joe
>
>
>
> Joseph T. Tennis
> Assistant Professor
> The Information School
> University of Washington
>
> Reviews Editor for the journal Knowledge Organization
>
> jtennis at uw.edu<mailto:jtennis at uw.edu>
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