Ontologies and Taxonomies
- Note: 'and' not 'vs'
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Often used as syonymous, but generally have different world
views (warning: gross oversimplification ahead)
- CS - concerned about how software interacts with
ontologies
- LS - concerned with how patrons retrieve information with
the aid of taxonomies
- Often times more in common than each group suspects
- Both are 'valid' and incredible useful
- Standards provide common means for expressing both
- Resulting in common tools for managing, discovering,
navigating infromation from different views
