ISO/TC 37/SC 3/WG 1 - Data categories

This document provides guidelines and requirements governing data category specifications for language resources. It specifies mechanisms for creating, documenting, harmonizing and maintaining data category specifications in a data category repository. It also describes the structure and content of data category specifications. The intended audience of this document is researchers and practitioners in fields of language resource management who use data categories and data category specifications.

ISO 12620:2009 provides guidelines concerning constraints related to the implementation of a Data Category Registry (DCR) applicable to all types of language resources, for example, terminological, lexicographical, corpus-based, machine translation, etc. It specifies mechanisms for creating, selecting and maintaining data categories, as well as an interchange format for representing them.