In other cases it may show that the structure of the discipline is viewed in different ways, surely a healthy process. Many amateur curators do not realise the value of concepts. The discussions on the VHG listserver have been guided and helped by two people in particular, Sue Ellen Wright and Fred Riggs. In contrast, some VHGs will not be analysed by concept certainly to start with. VHG does give concept maps through entailed terms.
Concept maps are a novel use of graph technology to give a map of related terms.
Although in their infancy, these could be used for quality control of glossaries and to help navigation and term retrieval. Glossaries are developing in parallel with the prototypes in biology. So far, everyone is involved on a voluntary basis. Thus all curators are volunteers, as are the authors of this article. To date, Venus Internet Ltd is also involved on a voluntary basis and VHG owe them a great deal.