Taxonomy Warehouse Relaunched!

Factiva, from Dow Jones, is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Web site
www.taxonomywarehouse.com.

Taxonomy Warehouse has provided unparalleled breadth and depth of information in the area of controlled vocabularies since 2001.

Taxonomy Warehouse relaunches with a completely new look and feel, a new range of directly licensable taxonomies, a new A-Z browsable index and a powerful new search function that enables you to search for vocabularies, publishers, categories, or all three at once, using keywords of your choice.

Taxonomy Warehouse provides a huge range of information to help those who are investigating what taxonomy is, right through to organizations making critical decisions on developing or managing taxonomies for an enterprise.

Factiva’s relaunch of Taxonomy Warehouse offers more than 550 taxonomies, arranged in 73 subject domains, produced by 260 publishers in 39 languages. More than 100 of these taxonomies can be licensed directly through Taxonomy Warehouse.

Taxonomy Warehouse will continue to help provide the information you need to effectively categorize internal and external data collections and ensure answers to search queries are found with speed and precision.

First Two Parts of Revised British Standard Published

The first two parts of the revised British Standard were approved and published in November 2005, and draft work continues on parts three, four and five.

BS 8723-1:2005 - Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Part One: Definitions, symbols and abbreviations.
BS 8723-2:2005 - Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Part Two: Thesauri.

There are significant differences between BS 5723:1987 and BS 8723:2005 - 1&2. These include extra information regarding thesaurus functions in electronic systems, requirements for thesaurus management software, thesauri presented through electronic media and facet analysis.

These two parts revise and supersede BS 5723:1987, which is now withdrawn.

Draft work continues on parts three, four and five of this revised British Standard.

Part three of the standard will deal with controlled vocabularies other than thesauri, part four with the operation of multiple vocabularies, including multilingual thesauri, and part five will consider the interoperation of controlled vocabularies with other elements of information storage and retrieval systems.

Copies of parts one and two of this standard can be purchased from:

www.bsonline.bsi-global.com/server/index.jsp