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ISOcat

ISOcat is one of the software tools to be evaluated by the Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG). ISOcat provides a well designed workflow for the collaborative development and maintenance of basic terms as part of a designated Vocabulary of Terms. The ISOcat also provides useful features to build a collection of terms from the Term Vocabularies to be exported in a format somewhat similar to the Darwin Core extensions and controlled value vocabularies. The ISOcat software platform was developed and is maintained by the Clarin EU 7th framework project.

• ISOcat demo, http://kos.gbif.org/isocat/interface/
• ISOcat homepage, http://www.isocat.org/
• ISOcat manual, http://www.isocat.org/files/manual.html

Data Category (DC) is a specification of a concept or term (similar in function as the Darwin Core terms). A Data Category Selection (DCS) is a list of terms or concepts (DC) and can be used to build a set of terms for a Darwin Core extensions or a set of terms for a Darwin Core controlled value vocabulary. The full set of terms that belong to Darwin Core can be organized into a DCS and labeled as Darwin Core.

References

Windhouwer M, and Wright SE (2012). Linking to Linguistic Data Categories in ISOcat. p. 99-107, In: Chiarcos, C. (ed.) Linked Data in Linguistics. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28249-2_10

ISO 12620 (2009). Terminology and other language and content resources - Specification of data categories and management of a Data Category Registry for language resources. ISO, Geneva, Switzerland. [1]

Kemps-Snijders M, Windhouwer M, Wittenburg P, Wright SE (2008) ISOcat: Corralling data categories in the wild. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), Marrakech, Morocco, [2]