CENDI Interest Areas — Taxonomies, Terminologies,
and
controlled vocabularies
In 2008, CENDI introduced the CENDI Science Terminology Locator. This web site is a gateway to federal science terminology from across the CENDI agencies. It provides topical, browse access to the terms in distributed terminology systems.
In Spring of 2005, the Terminology Task Group collaborated to create a list of Terminology Resources maintained by CENDI Agencies. These resources are of interest to those wishing to know about the scientific and technical terminology used in various fields.
In September 2004, the Content Management & Access Working Group held a workshop in Washington , DC called Knowledge Organization Systems: Current and Future Uses Among CENDI Agencies. This workshop dealt with issues concerning how thesauri, glossaries, subject categorizations, etc., are changing, and how CENDI agencies are using these changing resources.
In 1999, the Subject Analysis and Retrieval (SAR) Working Group and the Cataloging Working Group (now the Content Management and Access Working Group) held a conference on issues surrounding the use and development of controlled vocabularies for Web-based products and services. The conference, Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, was held at the National Library of Medicine and attended by over 175 people from both the government and private sectors. The presentations discussed the need for organization of Internet resources, described several prototypes for the use of controlled vocabulary, and demonstrated interfaces for navigating and browsing using these vocabularies.
In 1998, the SAR Working Group produced CENDI Agency Indexing System Descriptions: A Baseline Report, which provided a brief description of the indexing performed by each agency and the major concerns related to indexing/subject access.
