Hello All
I had thought that controlled vocabularies for recording and retrieving
information actually increase the amount of information an enquiry gets to
address - paradoxically, perhaps, freeing the individual from the confines
of vocabulary!
best
Isabel Holroyd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee, Edmund [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: FW: UK Government Metadata Framework released for
> comment
>
> Hmm - interesting point, Neil. I guess it all depends on who is
> responsible
> for approving / rejecting candidate terms and the structuring of the
> relationships! An Office of Fair Indexing perhaps?
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Campling [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 January 2001 12:47
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> Subject: Re: FW: UK Government Metadata Framework released for comment
>
>
> Dear Ed,
> Smacks of Orwellian 'Newspeak' to me: controlling vocabularies to limit
> the
> way people enquire and think about things.
>
> Doubleplusungood !
>
> Cheers, Neil
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