Overview
"Vocabulary “Vocabulary control is used to improve the effectiveness of information storage and retrieval systems, Web navigation systems, and other environments that seek to both identify and locate desired content via some sort of description using language. The primary purpose of vocabulary control is to achieve consistency in the description of content objects and to facilitate retrieval.
"Vocabulary “Vocabulary control is achieved by three principal methods:
• Defining the scope, or meaning, of terms;
• Using the equivalence relationship to link synonymous and nearly synonymous terms; and
• Distinguishing among homographs."”
For a glossary of relevant terms, see the full text of ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005.
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