Friday, April 08, 2005

Ontologies, Vocabularies, URIs 

Joho the Blog: Controlled and suggested vocabularies: Are tags making us dumb?: "Controlled and suggested vocabularies: Are tags making us dumb?

Companies like Boeing spend years developing controlled vocabularies to drive ambiguity out of their technical documentation. For example, tech writers might be told to use the word 'turn' but not 'twist' when describing any circular motion involving a tool. And, at Corbis, the home of millions of digital images, the in-house cataloguers might be told to use the word 'shore' and not 'beach' when describing coastal photos. "

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