# /research/projects/mswitch/4_termservs.htm

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# Terminology Services (Metadata Switch)

## Goal

This project explored techniques for offering accessible, modular, web-based terminology services.

## Project description

As a subproject of the Metadata Switch Project, this project explored techniques for mapping knowledge organization resources, encoding vocabularies using existing and emerging standards, and searching and distributing vocabulary resources via web-based protocols. The project was completed in December 2003.

A successor project, which extends the capabilities of the exploratory project, was started in 2004.

## Project team

- Diane Vizine-Goetz (Lead)
- Carol Hickey
- Andrew Houghton
- Roger Thompson