ICC and ICS: Comparison and Relations between two Systems Based on Different Principles

CIRT, the Italian Reference Centre for Technical and Scientific Terminology, is a network of sites designed to manage and retrieve terminological information. In view of the multiplicity of knowledge base structures which go together to form CIRT, as well as the need to preserve them, an interface system was developed for the integrated management of different order systems. Work began with an analysis and comparison of the ICC and ICS classifications. Automatic procedures were defined to manage these classifications in an integrated way and to compare and correlate their classes. This paper describes the different structural characteristics of the two systems in question with a formal presentation of the typology of relations between classes, the problems that emerged during the research and the results achieved.