I think that there is definitely a need to think about integrating existing
standards. May I make a plea for the thesauri issues to be considered,
including the possibility of the use of hierarchies so that the same
thesaurus could be used for different databases but at different levels;
language; visual thesauri?
And may I also suggest that thought is given to the user? How accessible or
inaccessible should information be - in terms of sensitivity of information,
levels/types of user. The debate about GIS, for example, reminds me of how
difficult the issue of sensitive information can be.
Janet Davis
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