At the bottom of the jisc page is a link to the best source I've found yet:  Taxonomy Warehouse
http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/headword_list_new.aspx?vObject=10076&stype=ab

Happy exploring!
Louise

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One last resource for the day:  http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/controlling-your-language-links-to-metadata-vocabularies

--Louise

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Another interesting link: http://www.ddialliance.org/controlled-vocabularies
Data Documentation Initiative

"A first set of controlled vocabularies is now being developed for the DDI standard, to be used to describe specific aspects of research data across the data life cycle. These DDI-CVs, which are being created by the DDI Controlled Vocabularies Group (CVG), may be used for other purposes and by other applications as well. The group will add new vocabularies to the site as soon as they are finalized, in addition to the core set published at this point."

Besides the obvious library-related ones, just Google around and you will make many more discoveries!

--Louise

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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:09 PM
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Hi Joseph,

   I'm sure there are hundreds (perhaps thousands) of such controlled vocabularies!  But here is a website that might give you a starting point:
http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

Cheers,
Louise

Louise Ratliff
Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center Los Angeles, CA

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Friends and colleagues,

I am wondering if anyone knows how many controlled vocabularies exist in the world today?  I am aware of the OBO Foundry, Taxobank, and I have started to collect lists from other places, but I don't have a clue as to whether these are a representative sample or not.  I can only start to understand if I know how many are out there (in every different version).  Does anyone have an idea?  Does anyone know where I might look?  Does the SAS collection at Toronto serve as a complete inventory of these things?

And by controlled vocabulary I mean classification schemes, thesauri, terminologies, ontologies, etc.  Anything that is a restricted set of semantics used in the process of indexing or labeling.  Yes, that is very general ;-)

Thanks for any and all help you can provide.

Sincerely,
joe



Joseph T. Tennis
Assistant Professor
The Information School
University of Washington

Reviews Editor for the journal Knowledge Organization

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