Draft Outline for

Terminology Management for an ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry

This is an outline of a draft of the standard for terminology management. This outline was developed during L8 SIG terminology project meetings. The persons listed will make contributions for the outline. Jim Carpenter will paste the contributions into a template for ISO/IEC JTC 1 standards. Everyone, national or international, is invited to send contributions.

Send contributions to Jim Carpenter, <CarpenterJ@bls.gov>.

Foreword (part of template) (Doug Mann will put the standard template on SC 32 website and will send a copy to Jim Carpenter)

0'. Introduction (à Linda Spencer)

0'.1 Semantics management via metadata registries

0'.2 Gaps in relevant standards

0'.3 What we are trying to accomplish

0 Scope

Inclusive of any classification scheme.

Bruce Bargmeyer to develop a draft.

1. Conformance

2. Normative references

à Tom Kurihara, Beverly Hacker, Ky Ostergaard to send references to Jim Carpenter.

ISO 1087 …

3. Terms and definitions (à Henry Heffernan - provided a draft, will prepare it for putting on the Web.)

3.1 Calepin

3.2 Ontology

3.3 Thesaurus

3.4 Taxonomy

4. Symbols and abbreviated terms

5. Summary of required functions for terminology management in an ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry

6. Methods for management of terminology for an ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry

7. Registration and use of classification schemes

8. The guts of this standard

8.1 Integration with metadata registries

8.2Organization structures for concepts

8.3 Terminology attributes for 11179 (modifications to Part 2 and 3)

à Ky Ostergaard to prepare a starter set

Informative Annexes

A1. Framework for Semantics Management in Metadata Registries

Bruce Bargmeyer and Ky Ostergaard to draft.

A2. Use cases

Use Cases

Use cases are to be developed and sent to Jim Carpenter by January 31, 1999. A template will be provided. Doug Mann is sending input material for template development to Pat Heinig. Pat will prepare a template and send it to the people working on this project. The use cases below are a starter set, with assignments of persons to develop each use case.

This is a list of the use cases for terminology within the context of an ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry.

Each use case to be written from the viewpoint "I am a user who…." Use cases may include statements that put required "functions" in context.

1 Access to concepts

Want to be able to access concepts.

Larry Fitzwater

2 Establish Object Classes and Properties

Develop a controlled vocabulary for use in assigning the "object class" and "property" to data elements. Also modifiers/qualifiers.

Larry Fitzwater

3 Search documents and data

Use search engine

Ky Ostergaard

4 Generate controlled vocabulary for input into search engine

Ky Ostergaard

5 Control vocabulary used for input to data element design

Names, definitions, value domains.

Genevieve Speier

6 Specify meaning of key terms used in legislation, regulations, business rules, and data element standardization.

Beverly Hacker

7 Generate controlled vocabulary for cataloging of documents or data to facilitate finding with a search engine

Ky Ostergaard

8 Extract multiple contexts for a single term

If one is using or registering a term, how has it been used previously?

Ky Ostergaard

9 Define terms used in data element definitions

Larry Fitzwater

10 Registration and use of classification schemes

Jim Carpenter