This is the official development website for BS 8723: Structured Vocabularies for Information Retrieval. It was created specifically to support Part 5 of the standard, known as DD 8723-5, dealing with Exchange formats and protocols for interoperability.
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Term: a word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept [1]
Concept: an abstract idea. Concepts are expressed by terms. [1]
Fact: Facts relate terms [2]
Fact Type: a fact type is an association between two or more concepts
Vocabulary: the body of words used in a particular language or in a particular sphere [1]
Terminology: the body of terms used in a subject of study, profession, etc. [1]
Fact Model: A fact model establishes the basis for shared operational business knowledge. [2] This model is usually graphical and can also be called the business object model or BOM.
At the core of the platform lies a common data model to enable interoperability between the different components. In order to interact with the platform, a component should know how to interact with at least a subset of the CDM. The model describes all the commonly used data that is dealt with in the platform, and therefore covers at least taxonomic names and concepts; literature references; authors; (type) specimen; structured descriptive data; and species related content of any kind like economic use or conservation status. Nearly all this data has already been described by existing or upcoming TDWG standards. Unfortunately, there are still major gaps in compatibility, so a new integrated data model has to be developed in order to quickly yield results.
MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.