Re: c.d.theory glossary (repost)

Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> writes:
>

>>:-)
>>To what end? What was the stated purpose?

I did an excercise to grasp the sameness and differences of/between the approaches:

 From that page:

> The Metathesaurus is a very large, multi-purpose, and multi-lingual
> vocabulary database that contains information about biomedical and
> health related concepts, their various names, and the relationships
> among them. It is built from the electronic versions of many different
> thesauri, classifications, code sets, and lists of controlled terms used
> in patient care, health services billing, public health statistics,
> indexing and cataloging biomedical literature, and /or basic, clinical,
> and health services research. In this documentation, these are referred
> to as the "source vocabularies" of the Metathesaurus. In the
> Metathesaurus, all the source vocabularies are available in a single,
> fully-specified database format.
>
> The Metathesaurus is organized by concept or meaning.
> In essence, its purpose is to link alternative names and views of the
> same concept together and to identify useful relationships between
> different concepts. All concepts in the Metathesaurus are assigned to at
> least one semantic type fromt he Semantic Network. This provides
> consistent categorization of all concepts in the Metathesaurus at the
> relatively general level represented in the Semantic Network. Many of
> the words and multi-word terms that appear in concept names or strings
> in the Metathesaurus also appear in the SPECIALIST lexicon. The lexical
> tools are used to generate the owrd, normalized word, and normalized
> string indexes to the Metathesaurus. MetamorphoSys must be used to
> install the Metathesaurs files and is the recommended software tool for
> customizing the Metathesaurs for specific purposes.
>
>
> For additional information on the Metathesaurus:
> Factsheet
> Documentation
> Source Vocabularies

Migrating this to database context this would become:

     The Metathesaurus is a very large, multi-purpose, and multi-lingual
     vocabulary database that contains information about database theory
     and related concepts, their various names, and the relationships
     among them. It is built from the electronic versions of many
     different thesauri, classifications, code sets, and lists of
     controlled terms used in database design, implementation, operation
     and change management, cost sharing, productivity research, indexing
     and cataloging database literature, and /or basic databse research.

     In this documentation, these are referred to as the "source
     vocabularies" of the Metathesaurus. In the Metathesaurus, all the
     source vocabularies are available in a single, fully-specified
     database format.

     ... The Metathesaurus ...

Migrating it to the glossary:

     The glossary is a small, single-purpose, and single-lingual
     vocabulary text that consists of items that led to mutual
     misunderstandings in the c.d. theory newsgroup.
     It is built from remarks of contributing authors in that newsgroup.
     This newsgroup uses terms from database design, implementation,
     operation and change management, cost sharing, productivity
     research, indexing and cataloging database literature, and /or basic
     database research. In this newsgroups, these contributions are
     referred to as the "posts". On the newsservers, all the recent posts
     are available in NNTP format.

     There is no additional information on the glossary.

     The glossary is organized by concept or meaning.
     In essence, its purpose is to limit lengthy misunderstandings.
     It consists of signposts: watch out! You may think the OP means
     A but she might mean B. Alternative names and views of the same
     concept are only introduced when the danger of mutual
     misunderstandings is appearant. When context matters, it is
     provided. This leads to a highly biased list of problematic
     concepts in the glossary at the relatively narrow level
     represented in short texts. Many of the words and multi-word
     terms that appear in the glossary are abused. There are no
     lexical tools. A subscribtion to c.d.theory must be used to
     have access to the most current version of the glossary.
     A newsreader is the recommended software tool for both reading
     and contributing to the glossary.

Narrowing this down:

The glossary is a list of items that led to mutual misunderstandings in the c.d. theory newsgroup. It is built from contributions. The newsgroup uses terms from database design, implementation, operation and change management, cost sharing, productivity research, indexing and cataloging database literature, and /or basic databse research.

The glossary's purpose is to limit lengthy misunderstandings. It consists of signposts: watch out! You may think the OP means A but she might mean B. Alternative names and views of the same concept are only introduced when the danger of mutual misunderstandings is appearant. When context matters, it is provided. The glossary is a highly biased list of problematic concepts. Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 09:46:06 CEST