FOREWORD
ABBREVIATIONS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 LEVELS OF HARMONISATION
2.1 TERMINOLOGICAL HARMONISATION
2.2 CROSS LINKS
2.3 COMMON BASIC VOCABULARY IN THE FIELD
OF EDUCATION
2.4 ASSOCIATION
3 GUIDELINES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HARMONISING
THESAURI
3.1 STANDARDS AND DEFINITIONS
3.1.1 Standards
3.1.2 Definitions
3.2 INTEROPERABILITY RECOMMENDATIONS
3.2.1 Increase interoperability among
repositories through the vocabulary as
the backbone of knowledge systems
3.2.2 Increase interoperability among
European repositories
3.3 GUIDELINES FOR MULTILINGUAL THESAURI
3.3.1 Major European or International
Documentary languages
3.3.2 Forming Language Equivalents
3.4 QUALITY CONTROL
3.4.1 Checking the coherence of the new term
3.4.2 Checking the coherence of the linguistic version
4 CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND BINDING FOR A VOCABULARY
4.1 BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE XVD CONCEPTUAL MODEL
4.2 DATA ELEMENTS OF THE XVD CONCEPTUAL MODEL
4.3 LIST VALUES OF THE XVD CONCEPTUAL MODEL
4.4 VOCABULARIES OF THE XVD CONCEPTUAL MODEL
4.5 CHARACTER SETS OF THE XVD CONCEPTUAL MODEL
4.6 XML BINDING OF THE XVD CONCEPTUAL MODEL
4.7 CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF A CROSS-LINK BETWEEN
TWO VOCABULARIES
4.8 XML BINDING OF THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF
A VOCABULARY MAPPING
5 TECHNIQUES FOR HARMONISATION OF VOCABULARIES
5.1 EXTENSIONS
5.2 REFINEMENTS
5.3 RESTRICTIONS
5.4 CROSS-LINKS
5.5 USING THE HARMONISATION TECHNIQUES
IN BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS
5.6 MAPPING APPLICATION PROFILES
5.7 MAPPING TO AN ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL
6 APPLICATION TO OTHER VOCABULARIES
6.1 HARMONISATION OF CLASSIFICATIONS
6.2 ONTOLOGIES AND TOPIC MAPS
7 SIMPLE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION SYSTEM
APPENDIX A: EXAMPLE RULES FOR MAPPING