ISOcat: Corralling Data Categories in the Wild

To achieve true interoperability for valuable linguistic resources different levels of variation need to be addressed. ISO Technical Committee 37, Terminology and other language and content resources, is developing a Data Category Registry. This registry will provide a reusable set of data categories. A new implementation, dubbed ISOcat, of the registry is currently under construction. This paper shortly describes the new data model for data categories that will be introduced in this implementation. It goes on with a sketch of the standardization process. Completed data categories can be reused by the community. This is done by either making a selection of data categories using the ISOcat web interface, or by other tools which interact with the ISOcat system using one of its various Application Programming Interfaces. Linguistic resources that use data categories from the registry should include persistent references, e.g. in the metadata or schemata of the resource, which point back ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Marc Kemps-Snijders, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter Wittenburg, Sue Ellen Wright
• Keywords: Data Categories, Data Category Registry, Education, Linguistic Resources, LREC 2008