[sigCR] How many controlled vocabularies?

[Elisa Sze]

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, the SAS collection at the University of Toronto iSchool is no longer a complete inventory, in the sense that we have been able to add very few new titles to it in the last few years. HIstorically, our collection was listed in the ANSI/NISO standard as the North American clearinghouse for English language thesauri and controlled vocabulary published in print; the status helped us in building up the collection. As one of the consultants from NISO informed me though, most thesauri are no longer being produced in print, so as a result, the committee that revised ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 decided that it would no longer list the clearinghouses for this type of material.

Hope this helps to shed some light on the topic.

Best regards,
Elisa

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Elisa Sze
Librarian, Collections & Public Services Coordinator
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
140 St. George St., Toronto, ON   M5S 3G6

Telephone: 416-978-7071
http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/staff/elisa-sze



> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigcr-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigcr-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
> Of Joseph Tennis
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:35 PM
> To: sigcr-l at asist.org
> Subject: [sigCR] How many controlled vocabularies?
> 
> 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>
> http://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/jtennis
> 
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