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ISO 25964-2 Information and documentation, Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies, Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies
international standard
Supports holding a mapping to a vocabulary governed elsewhere as its own set of statements rather than as a property of either vocabulary, and distinguishing exact equivalence from the inexact and partial kinds, so a correspondence asserted here says which it is.
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What it informs — 2
- guidanceUse external content taxonomy as a mapping, not mastery
- enforcedA correspondence to a vocabulary governed elsewhere is asserted, never imported
This source is what the model was built from. It does not itself commit the model to anything — a commitment does, and the ones it informs are named above.