Introduction - Essential Concepts - Controlled Vocubularies

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Whats a synonym ring?

Set of terms with roughly equivalent meaning. Used for retrieval.

Whats an authority list

A controlled vocubulary of descriptive terms designed to facilitate retrieval of information within a specific domaijn of scope.
- One term is preferred
- has a designated manager

Which different structures can a taxonomy have ?

  1. Flat (list of countries)
  2. hierarchical (from continent to street)
  3. polyhierarchy (tree like)
  4. facet (star eg. Metadata)
  5. network (hierarchical and facet like a recommendation engine)
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What are the two key differences bewteen a taxonomy and a ontology ?

  1. Taxonomy has a fixed structure. Ontology has its structure identified through metadata or other relationships
  2. Taxonomy the known is defined. Ontology can use open world assumption.

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