[Sigia-l] e-Government Taxonomy

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Dan Brown wrote:

> Saw this op-ed this morning in Federal Computer Weekly
> on the e-Government Act of 2002.
>
> http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0715/pol-ari-07-15-02.asp
>
> IA-related issues are far from front-and-center, but
> the article does say:
>
> "In particular, the federal government would be pushed
> to build a common taxonomy for the use of terms across
> agencies that could be used for any kind of emerging
> standard in this area. This will make searching and
> categorizing government documents easier."
>
> -- Dan

People might find some interest in the equivalent project in New Zealand.

http://www.e-government.govt.nz/nzgls/index.asp

The thesauri are available as downloads in various formats.

Andrew McNaughton