I would suspect that's and unanswerable question.
(I know I've never registered the ontology I wrote for a dataset I have
with anyone, and I've never heard of SAS (sorry) )
Its kinda like asking "how many dialects are there, in all languages"
On 20/02/13 22:34, Joseph Tennis wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone knows how many controlled vocabularies exist in
> the world today? I am aware of the OBO Foundry, Taxobank, and I have
> started to collect lists from other places, but I don't have a clue as
> to whether these are a representative sample or not. I can only start
> to understand if I know how many are out there (in every different
> version). Does anyone have an idea? Does anyone know where I might
> look? Does the SAS collection at Toronto serve as a complete inventory
> of these things?
>
> And by controlled vocabulary I mean classification schemes, thesauri,
> terminologies, ontologies, etc. Anything that is a restricted set of
> semantics used in the process of indexing or labeling. Yes, that is
> very general ;-)
>
> Thanks for any and all help you can provide.
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