[Sigia-l] ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - 2005

[William Denton]

On 1 November 2005, Peter Morville wrote:

> The new "Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of
> Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies" have been completed and published. I
> was fortunate to serve on the committee along with folks who know way more
> about controlled vocabularies and thesauri than I do. If you have any
> interest in deep ia or bottom-up ia, I highly recommend reading these
> guidelines.

I'm glad to hear the revisions are done.  I've been using the draft for a 
medical thesaurus and it's very useful, much more so than earlier 
and shorter versions.  Z39.19 is a great standard, and the full document 
is a great guide to everything about thesauri, for beginners to experts.

Bill
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