About Us
Vocabulary Management Group
Vocabulary Management Group is a leading software and consultancy company for the creation, management and dissemination of digital vocabularies and similar structured information. The company was formed in March 2005 by two UK-based partner companies, Schemeta and Knowledge Integration, bringing together more than 50-person years of experience in knowledge organisation.
Vocabulary Management Group has an established and growing customer base in the Education, Cultural and Government sectors in the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. It supports systems ranging from hundreds to millions of terms or concepts.
The Vocabulary Management Group team includes experts in the field of controlled vocabularies in their various forms - linked data, taxonomies, classification schemes, thesauri, ontologies, folksonomies and repositories.
Vocman personnel have played a key role in the establishment and use of open standards for vocabulary and metadata management, and have worked with a range of standards bodies and implementers’ groups to help embed standards, such as Zthes, CEN Curriculum Exchnage Format, Z39.50 (ISO 23950), ISO ILL (ISO 10160/10161) and SRU/SRW, into mainstream applications.
Existing projects are contributing to wider awareness of these standards in international education sectors, leading to the adoption of interoperable systems, prescribed terminologies and simplified mapping between vocabularies. This supports increased data and knowledge sharing between systems and organisations.
