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Vocabularies, Taxonomies & Topic Maps

Librarians have long developed what they call ‘Thesauri’ that contain controlled vocabularies and/or taxonomies (OBC Topic 3) to aid useful access to information and objects.  These Thesauri focus on ‘concepts’ by using primary terms and their synonyms.  The taxonomies strongly reflect the essential nature of the things the information is about with a hierarchy of general to specific ‘IS A’ relationships.  Topic Maps are a new way to show the connections between ‘concepts’ (OBC Topics 3 and 4) similar to Semantic Nets from the world of Cognitive Psychology.  

 

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