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Interoperability: Love it or Loathe it

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Stella G. Dextre Clarke
Affiliation:
independent information consultant specialising in thesauri, taxonomies and how to use them (SDClarke@LukeHouse.demon.co.uk). Over the last two years she has been helping the Office of the e-Envoy with design and development of the GCL.

Extract

This article will be a Rogue's Gallery of some of the most off-putting jargon in our trade: unfriendly “metadata”, “taxonomy” and “thesaurus” as well as the infamous “interoperability”. We have to learn to live with these tricky characters, however. So why not learn to love them I will try to bring out what is useful about them, as well as facing up to the discomforts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2003

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