Description
Here are the draft documents relevant to taxonomies, as promised at the Workshop held earlier this month. They have been developed as British Standards, but the hope is that they will lead directly on to International (ISO) Standards.
The revised standard is conceived in 5 parts, of which only two (Parts 1 and 2) are attached as sufficiently advanced for distribution. Part 1 is general; Part 2 concentrates on monolingual thesauri; Part 3 will cover other sorts of controlled vocabulary; Part 4 will address mapping between vocabularies; Part 5 will cover formats and protocols for data transmission and exchange. So in fact Parts 4 and 5 are the ones most directly needed to further the aims of taxonomy harmonization.
Parts 1 and 2 are about to be issued by BSI as Drafts for Public Comment, and when this happens they will be available through the BSI website. The versions attached are penultimate drafts. In other words, they do not include some editorial amendments required for conformance with the BSI house-style. There are no substantive corrections in the pipeline, although any comments received from OASIS members could lead to amendments before the Drafts are approved.
