[Sigia-l] e-Government Taxonomy -Jonathan Board

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded for Jonathan Broad to avoid HTML.  Dick Hill]

You're right, GILS isn't a taxonomy--but they are working in conjunction
with several states to develop a CV (a "topic tree") for government topics.

http://www.gils.net/trees.html

A version of that CV is being used by Wisconsin.gov's "subject directory".
http://forward.state.wi.us:9000/cpp/  This implementation uses Intkomi's
Content Classification Engine (CCE) to harvest embedded metadata in state
agency pages.  Irregularities in topic coverage are due to inconsistent
metadata practices by the agencies--a perennial problem. :)

Jonathan

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Jonathan Broad
Information Architecture/Content Management
Citizen Portal Project Development Team
jonathan.broad at deg.state.wi.us

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org
 > [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
 > Stewart, Erin [NEA]
 > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:17 PM
 > To: Gene Smith; sigia-l at asis.org
 > Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] e-Government Taxonomy
 >
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > My understanding is that the GILS profile allows an agency to
 > declare a controlled vocabulary to support searching (e.g.,
 > EPA).  However, GILS does not provide a taxonomy; it is a
 > metadata scheme.
 >
 > Erin
 >


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