z39.19-2005: Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies

ANSI/NISO released an updated version of Z39.19-2005, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies . Since I’m interested in this as a topic, I thought I’d go through and read the standard section by section and make comments on it. This is intended both as a guide to greater understanding on my part and to help other people who might be interested in this material.

As sections get large enough, I’m going to send them off onto their own sub pages. Actually, I’ve largely removed this material for ©opyright reasons. If you’re interested in something that would presumably be here, contact me and we can talk about it.

About The Standard
1. Introduction
2. Scope of the Document
The terms themselves
3. Scope, Form, and Choice of Descriptors
4. Compound Terms
5. Relationships
Displaying CVs
6. Print Display
7. Screen Display
Building and Maintaining Controlled Vocabularies
8. Construction
9. Maintenance
10. Management