[sigCR] How many controlled vocabularies?

[Joseph Busch]

Great question Joe! 

Taxonomy Warehouse
(http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/headword_list_new.aspx?vObject=10076&stype
=ab) is a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) resource for current CV's.

I have visited the Toronto collection which is likely the most comprehensive
collection of CVs available today. Its strength is historical, printed
CVs--not current online resources. It also has a focus on traditional
content organization schemes and classification systems--not ontologies and
esoterica outside the traditional LIS domain. I am very curious about other
opinions of the Toronto collection.

Best regards,

Joseph
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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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