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Re: SIGIA-L: Controlled vocabs for consumer product catalogs?

From: Alice Klingener (grovelandgroup_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 13:00:34 EST


You might also look into the CV's done by some of the
commercial database vendors -- perhaps they might
license them. Gale Group's PROMT has a very broad,
high-quality vocabulary that also ties into a
numerical classification scheme
(http://www.galegroup.com).

Two other high-quality CVs: 1. RDS (Responsive
Database Service) for their Business & Industry
Database. Looks like Gale has bought them too, so
it's www.galegroup.com again, and 2. Bell & Howell
Information and Learning has one developed for their
ABI Inform Database (http://www.umi.com).

Cheers,

Alice Klingener
Information Consultant
grovelandgroup_at_yahoo.com

> At 11:24 21/02/01 -0800, Christy Adessa wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >I've been charged with a new initiative at
> Epinions.com to develop a
> >controlled vocabulary and other metadata resources
> for the site. Our product
> >DB includes several hundred thousand consumer goods
> and services in a wide
> >variety of categories, most notably autos,
> computers, electronics,
> >home/garden, kids/family, and sports.
>
> You might find something useful from the thesaurus
> and classification
> scheme listings at the controlled vocabularies site
>
http://www2.fit.qut.edu.au/InfoSys/middle/cont_voc.html
>
> These include product schemes
>
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