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MCLS 70003, Fall Semester 2007:
Terminology Studies, Discussion Guide SW9

Version: 2007-09-13
SW9,  Industry Standards 
Instructor PowerPoint: Terminology, Knowledge Organization, and Metadata Standards (See MCLS-IAL1/Public/70003)
The readings comprise several major ISO, NISO (ANSI), and ISO-IEC standards..
Readings
See 70003_SW9_Standards Folder on MCLS-IAL1/Public/70003 Server for articles.
ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005. Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies.
ISO/IEC 11179-3.

What relationships do you see between controlled vocabularies and terminologies? What are the significant differences? What role do metadata play with respect to terminologies and controlled vocabularies? How would you compare the definition of terminology to the specification of metadata?
Task Description:
Research Project PowerPoint presentations: All students are required to prepare a 20 minute presentation outlining their Research Projects for presentation to the class in SW 10, 11, and 12, according to a schedule to be announced later. Serious thought should be given to these presentations. It is recommended that they be treated as if they were your presentation of your research at a scholarly conference. Presentations will be followed by group discussion.
Student PowerPoint Presentations
Student PowerPoints: short, 5-10 slide presentations on:
  1. Multilingual thesauri
  2. Ontologies
Deliverables 
Submit PowerPoints after class for inclusion in the MCLS1 resource.
Submit draft 704 Concept Description projects (see SW2 for task description).