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<title>Tomatoes Are Not the Only Fruit: A Guide to Controlled Vocabularies</title>
<shortdesc>This is a brief introduction to the relationships between taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies, and similar ‘things’. It doesn’t contain definitive, scientific definitions, it is a personal interpretation of some fairly complex structures. It aims to give you a fairly clear what these ‘things’ are, so librarians or IT people can’t blind you with science.</shortdesc>
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<p>This is a brief introduction to the relationships between taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies, and similar ‘things’. It doesn’t contain definitive, scientific definitions, it is a personal interpretation of some fairly complex structures. It aims to give you a fairly clear what these ‘things’ are, so librarians or IT people can’t blind you with science.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Information-Design/Metadata">All works in 'Articles &gt; Information-Design &gt; Metadata'</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles">All works in 'Articles'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Information-Design">'Information Design'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Metadata">'Metadata'</a></li>
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