Re: The real world doesn't have an "other xyz", neithershould

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From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...>
To: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@g...>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:03:38 -0500

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@g...> wrote:

Controlled vocabularies are by definition "controlled" - adding, modifying or deleting terms from within a controlled vocabulary is done expressly by a curator.

Indeed, it's common for such vocabularies to have not one but many "other" terms: after "hepatitis A", "hepatitis B", etc. it is usual to have "hepatitis, not otherwise specified". Indeed this is common enough to have the standard abbreviation "NOS".

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GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures

References:
- The real world doesn't have an "other xyz", neither should your XML
  - From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
- Re: The real world doesn't have an "other xyz", neithershould your XML
  - From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@g...>

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