The Organization of Information Quotes

“Natural language processing (NLP) research aims to enable computers to interpret and react to human languages.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“The use of standardized terms and relationship indicators allows for successful searching and navigation.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“Although the relationships among them are not explicitly defined, there is no doubt that these terms and the vocabulary’s syndetic structure can be helpful when retrieving resources within a database or catalog.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“It is created to keep conceptual and semantic ambiguity at a minimum in an information and technological environment, which is something that is not always possible with traditional controlled vocabularies.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“The broadest usage of the term is for a formal representation or specification of what is common sense or objective reality to a human being.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“According to Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin, an ontology describes (a)the types of things that exist (classes), (b)the relationships between them (properties), and (c)the logical ways those classes and properties can be used together (axioms).46”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“Ontologies have been variously construed as classification schemes, taxonomies, hierarchies, thesauri, controlled vocabularies, terminologies and even dictionaries. While they may display characteristics reminiscent of each of these systems, to equate ontologies with any one type of representational structure is to diminish both their function and their potential in the evolution of the Semantic Web.44”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“Ontologies are not just another type of controlled vocabulary. Although they are similar to thesauri in that they address relationships among concepts, there are significant differences. The most notable is that the purpose of an ontology is farther reaching than that of a controlled vocabulary. A thesaurus, most often, is focused on addressing synonyms, homographs, hierarchy, and so on. Although an ontology is a formalized vocabulary of terms, an ontology’s emphasis is not solely lexical; it is also an attempt to represent the reality or essence of a situation, knowledge domain, or conceptual framework through formal definitions and specific relationships (i.e., those going beyond simple hierarchy and synonymy).”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“An access point is a name, word, phrase, or identifier chosen by a cataloger or indexer and placed in a particular field in a record that describes a”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“Metadata is stored in a variety of retrieval tools (a collective term used to describe bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, museum registers, bibliographic databases, search engines, and other tools that help users find information resources).”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“Bibliographic control (more often referred to as information organization today) is the process of describing information resources and providing name, title, and subject access to the descriptions, resulting in records or individual metadata statements that serve as surrogates for the actual items of recorded information.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“This means that the attributes used to describe an information resource are metadata about that resource.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information

“Metadata, in its most informal but most prevalent definition, is “data about data.”
― Arlene G. Taylor, The Organization of Information