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Cmte on Semantic Interoperability
Subcommittee on Semantic Interoperability
Charge: Survey the current state of international semantic interoperability projects which focus on subject and/or classification data. Produce a document outlining "best practices" at a level of generality that is both flexible enough to be measured against a variety of actual projects and specific enough to be made operational in current or proposed projects.
Specific tasks include, but are not necessarily limited to: a) An inventory of known semantic interoperability projects, with descriptions; b) An evaluation of selected projects, in terms of those projects' stated objectives; c) An investigation of the various concepts involved in the harmonization of indexing languages, such as switching languages, concordance tables, front-end thesauri, meta-thesauri, and mapping.
Issues to examine with regard to the above tasks may include: d) Conditions with optimize the effectiveness of harmonization, both among indexing languages of the same type, and among languages of different types; e) Simplification of existing indexing languages, in the context of interoperability; f) Approaches to integration and harmonization of subject vocabularies and knowledge organization schemes used in various metadata standards for the purposes of effective and efficient resource discovery.
The subcommittee will provide interim reports at each Midwinter and Annual Conference from Midwinter 2003 through Annual 2005, and will present a preconference or program at the 2004 Annual Conference. The subcommittee may present other information sessions or host public discussions of its findings as it sees fit. The continued need for the subcommittee will be evaluated at the 2005 Annual Conference.
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