Taxonomies in the Public Sector

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Information on policies and standards for e-government
A cut-down version of the e-GMS developed to help those creating local metadata standards for web sites.
The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) is an ‘encoding scheme’ for populating the e-GMS Subject element.
The site not only has AGROVOC online. It also has advice about free software tools that are useful in our context, and a glossary, and FAQs that can be used much more widely than agriculture.
ISKO UK is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines.
Factiva is a provider of news and business information to organizations worldwide
The National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCmail', is one of a number of JANET services provided by UKERNA and funded by the JISC to benefit learning, teaching and research communities.
This wiki was created as a space for the Taxonomy Community to share experiences and case studies, create a document repository, collaborate on best practices, and generally engage in dialogue with colleagues on a personal and professional level to help advance the practice of creating and managing taxonomies and other related issues.
Taxonomy Community of Practice - a Yahoo discussion group.
Taxonomy Warehouse provides a web directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files from around the world.
TFPL provides a wide range of integrated recruitment, training & advisory services to assist organisations across all sectors in meeting their knowledge, library, information, records, web & content  management needs.
The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation which includes subject terms for the following areas of knowledge: education, science, culture, social and human sciences, information and communication, and politics, law and economics. It also includes the names of countries and groupings of countries: political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and linguistic groupings.
Independent consultants in all aspects of "information management":
Precise and academically correct definitions. These definitions are aligned with the British Standard for thesauri, a revised version of which is due for publication at the end of 2005, numbered BS 8723.

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