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Knowledge Management (KM) Glossary

A glossary or dictionary of Knowledge Management (KM) specific terms and definitions that is published by the International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) and that pertains to, both, general enterprises and Information Technology (IT) organizations.  The KM Glossary is regularly maintained and updated, and grows to include new terms and definitions, constantly.  All glossary entries (i.e. terms) have semantic links to other appropriate root terms and discipline areas and are also found in the master IT Glossary.
 

General information
Vocabulary type: 
contrvoc
Current version/edition : 
N/A : Grows constantly.
Available formats: 
HTML (SKOS in near future)
Vocabulary Sample URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
full
html
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
rel_t
rt_do
Number of terms: 
100+ and growing, regularly.
Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

Material is open for use, subject to the terms and conditions outlined in the <a href="http://www.if4it.com/LICENSES/master_agreement.html">IF4IT Master Agreement</a> that, in summary, allows people and enterprises to use the IF4IT's content but not profit from it.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
Provider URL: 

Agriforest Ontology

AFO is particularly suitable for Natural Resources and Environment sectors (e.g., Agriculture, forestry, agri-food, environment, game management, fisheries, and biology) to describe the data. AFO is based on the Agriforest Thesaurus, which was maintained by the Viikki Campus Library, University of Helsinki until 2014.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

AFO

Vocabulary type: 
ont
Author or Editor: 
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke); National Library of Finland; Helsinki University Library; Finnish Environment Institute; The Finnish Terminology Centre TSK
Current version date: 
Thu, 2015-06-11
Vocabulary URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English; Finnish; Swedish

Major subjects covered: 

Science and medicine; Natural Resources; Environment

Purpose: 
    A tool for selecting terms for information retrieval and indexing documents
Mappings to other vocabularies: 

General Finnish upper ontology YSO

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
html
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
ont
Number of preferred terms: 
English, 27,409; Finnish, 31,765; Swedish, 24,859
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
English, 3,965; Finnish, 8,793; Swedish, 3,731
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Availability Comments: 

Can be downloaded as SKOS/RDF: RDF/XML TURTLE.

Import/download instructions : 

The RDF file is at http://api.finto.fi/download/afo/afo-skos.rdf. A link to TURTLE file is at the main thesaurus page (as is a link to the RDF/XML file).

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Finto, a Finnish service for the publication and utilization of vocabularies, ontologies and classifications. It provides a user interface for browsing the vocabularies andopen interfacesfor utilizing them in other applications.
Provider URL: 

Taxonomy of Enterprise Glossaries

A hierarchical taxonomy of key Enterprise Glossary Types, along with HTML links to each Glossary and all semantically related Term/Definition pairs. These Glossaries are used by IT organizations, IT professionals and the various enterprises they support to help standardize language, semantics, understanding and communications between individuals and systems and represent the very foundation for Enterprise Knowledge Management.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
contrvoc
Current version/edition : 
N/A
Available formats: 
HTML (SKOS in near future)
Vocabulary Sample URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
nier_part
rel_t
Number of classes: 

N/A

Number of terms: 
Over 64,000 as of 2011.10.26 and growing rapidly each week.
Depth of Hierarchy: 
Varies by Glossary
Terms and Conditions
Purchase/Subscription Price: 
Free
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
Provider URL: 

Inventory of Enterprise and Information Technology (IT) Taxonomies

A rapidly evolving inventory of the many Taxonomies used by Information Technology (IT) professionals and the enterprises they offer services to and for, covering a broad range of enterprise domain spaces and professional discipline areas.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Available formats: 
English
Vocabulary Sample URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
Relationship types: 
eq_lang_m
hier_bn
hier_gen
hier_inst
nier_part
rel_t
Depth of Hierarchy: 
Varies depending on Taxonomy
Terms and Conditions
Purchase/Subscription Price: 
Open and Free, Subject to Published Master Agreement
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
Provider URL: 

Information Technology (IT) Glossary

A highly unique, comprehensive, and lexicographically correct listing of tens of thousands of Information Technology (IT) terms and phrases that acts as the baseline for industry language standardization, as well acting as the binding foundation for many hundreds of semantically grouped domain-specific glossaries that are segmented according to individual IT Disciplines.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Information Technology (IT) Dictionary

Vocabulary type: 
glos
Available formats: 
English
Vocabulary Sample URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
Number of terms: 
Grows By Many Thousands Per Month
Terms and Conditions
Purchase/Subscription Price: 
Open and free, according to published master agreement
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
Provider URL: 

Artists' Books Thesaurus

This vocabulary describes artists' books by their physical attributes.  These attributes include: materials, processes used in their creation, and binding structures.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ABT

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
Caroline Conely, Deborah Hamilton, Cristina Linclau, and Rachel Woodbrook
Current version/edition : 
1
Current version date: 
Fri, 2011-06-03
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
1
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

The purpose of the Artists' Books Thesaurus is to assist in the indexing and retrieval of Artists' books by their physical attributes.  
 

 

Used By: 

Librarians, curators, and artists. 

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
hier_gen
hier_inst
nier_part
Number of classes: 

3

Number of terms: 
235
Number of preferred terms: 
127
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
108
Depth of Hierarchy: 
5
Provider
Provider URL: 

Pacific Northwest Artist Thesaurus

PNAT (Pacific Northwest Artist Thesaurus) is not bound to a specific institution or collection but is instead designed to be interoperable with a variety of collections, for use by cultural institutions working with collections that include Pacific Northwest artists. Cultural institutions include museums, art libraries, special collections, archives, and visual resource collections.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

PNAT

Vocabulary type: 
contrvoc
Current version/edition : 
1
Current version date: 
Mon, 2011-06-06
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

While there are several extant examples of controlled vocabularies that focus on art and artists, including those of the Getty Research Institute, the Pacific Northwest Artist Thesaurus is unique in its domain of artists affiliated with the Pacific Northwest. For the purposes of this thesaurus, the Pacific Northwest is defined as the geographical region bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the east by the Rocky Mountains and which includes Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Although PNAT is not an exhaustive thesaurus of Pacific Northwest artist terms, its design is hospitable to expansion of the thesaurus, with an eye towards interoperability across art institutions in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Artists Thesaurus was originally created to be used, in conjunction with a Name Authority File, by Seattle Art Museum librarians and volunteers, but its broader intended purpose is to assist art librarians, historians and art enthusiasts with information retrieval specific to the domain of Pacific Northwest artists. As a complement to the Seattle Art Museum Name Authority File (SAM NAF), the thesaurus was developed to provide a conceptual framework for proper names of northwest artists and related terminology. PNAT's hierarchically structured indexing language expresses relationships between hierarchically ordered concepts: individuals, corporate bodies, historical events, geography, artistic movements, styles, and media. 

 

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
Relationship types: 
eq_syn_ri
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
nier_part
rel_t
Number of preferred terms: 
70
Depth of Hierarchy: 
6
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
University of Washington Information School

NEWT

A taxonomy of biological organisms created and maintained to support the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt), a collection of databases providing a comprehensive protein sequencing resource. Provides official species names, common names and synonyms - either alternate common names or occasionally outdated Latin names. For viruses, a list of hosts is included if the virus has protein sequences listed in the UniProt databases.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
eq_syn_ri
hier_bn
othr
Characteristics Comments: 

Includes Actor / Acted Upon relationships.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
Provider URL: 

Pasta Lover's Thesaurus

"The Pasta Thesaurus is a compendium of pasta-related terms carefully selected by the [Pasta Lover's Association]'s team of expert indexers. It contains the controlled-vocabulary indexing language used in the creation of the index to the PLA's Pasta Recipe Database."

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
other
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Pasta Lover's Association

Introduction to Semantic Web and Linked Data

This webinar will cover the basic concepts behind the semantic web and
its implementation through linked data. While conceptually very simple, the linked data model is a significant departure from our current models that are based on records and database technologies.  We'll cover the underlying entity-relationship structure, "triples"  and "statements," the importance of identifiers and vocabularies. In addition, we will look briefly at the functionality that this model supports and the user benefits that come with it.
Event date: 
Wed, 2011-03-09
Event time: 
2011-03-09 16:30 to 17:30
Event location: 
Webinar
Reservation required: 
0
Additional information: 
Cost: ASIS&T Members:  $25  Non-Members:  $59 

Register at
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/linked-data.html
Event fee: 
$59

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