INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 25964-2: INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION-THESAURI AND INTEROPERABILITY WITH OTHER VOCABULARIES-PART 2: INTEROPERABILITY WITH OTHER VOCABULARIES

摘要

The document under review is the second part of ISO 25964, Information and Documentation-Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies, following the 2011 publication of Part I: Thesauri for Information Retrieval. It was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and Documentation, Subcommittee SC 9, Identification and Description. Where Part 1 included content revising earlier standards ISO 2728:1986 and ISO 5964:1985, Part 2 covers new ground in focusing on interoperability across controlled vocabularies. Clauses (sections) 1-16 lay the groundwork for discussing interoperability, and Clauses 17-24 provide guidelines for mapping particular types of controlled vocabularies and classification schemes to other systems. This review will describe the foundational Clauses 1-16 in some detail, briefly summarize Clauses 17-24, and conclude with comments about the light shed by the standard on the prospects for interoperability mapping. Clause 1, Scope, is brief enough to quote in its entirety: This part of ISO 25964 is applicable to thesauri and other types of vocabularies that are commonly used for information retrieval. It describes, compares and contrasts the elements and features of these vocabularies that are implicated when interoperability is needed. It gives recommendations for the establishment and maintenance of mappings between multiple thesauri, or between thesauri and other types of vocabularies.