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# Terminology services
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/terminology-services/
- Published: 2004-03-25T17:45:05.000Z
- Updated: 2004-03-25T17:45:05.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

I gave the opening presentation recently at the [JISC Terminology Services Workshop](https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-terminology/programme.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net "JISC Terminology Services Workshop CBI Conference Centre"). This event aimed to provide input as JISC considers whether to provide some national terminology services within the context of its [Information Environment](https://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about%5Finfo%5Fenv&ref=lorcandempsey.net) initiative.  
People were assembled from different backgrounds, but broadly one could identify those within a knowledge organization tradition (library, information science, cultural heritage) and those coming out of the e-science community with a strong research interest in semantic web technologies, including OWL and RDF. I sensed a gulf between these communities, of expectation and of language. To some extent, they talked past each other.  
Doug Tudhope’s presentation \[[ppt in html](https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-terminology/presentations/ppt-2000-html/d-tudhope%5Ffiles/v3%5Fdocument.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\] at the event tries to contextualise the various traditions represented, and I found it helpful.  
Doug Tudhope is also the joint editor, with Traugott, of the [current issue](https://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=4&iss=4&ref=lorcandempsey.net) of JoDI. This is devoted to knowledge organization issues with several papers spanning the interests mentioned above. Diane’s group contributes a paper.