Library Cataloging
An Invitation to participate in the World-Wide Review of IFLA Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri has been issued. Comments deadline: July 31, 2005
- Terminologies/thesauri Pilot Program
OCLC is exploring a service that provides access to multiple thesauri for libraries, museums, and archives. The service will create consistent metadata for collections providing mappings across thesauri to assist in relating terminology. It will provide...
- Thesauri
NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus is merger of five existing thesauri. It would be interesting to find the details of just how they were merged. Lets hope a paper or conference presentation becomes available.Jessica L. Milstead is the primary architect of...
- Rdf
A Thesaurus Interchange Format for the Semantic Web is now availableA product of the SWAD-Europe project, the Thesaurus Interchange Format (TIF) enables the development, integration and deployment of thesauri on the semantic web. The TIF is an RDF schema,...
- Mapping Thesauri
Another, much larger, mapping of terms from one thesauri to another is mapping MeSH to LCSH as done at Northwestern University. "Mapping the MeSH and LCSH Systems" by Tony Olson and Gary Strawn Information Technology and Libraries. 16(1) (March 1997)...
- Subject Access
The Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC) of the Canadian government has a page, Classification, Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies.The resources in this section are directed at persons interested in improving the organization and retrieval...
Library Cataloging
Multilingual Thesauri
An Invitation to participate in the World-Wide Review of IFLA Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri has been issued. Comments deadline: July 31, 2005
Guidelines for Multilingual ThesauriThe IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri started to prepare this document in 2002. The objective of this document is to add to the existing Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri as worded in the ISO-standard for multi-lingual thesauri (ISO-5964-1985) or in handbooks on thesaurus building, such as Aitchison (2000). The general principles for the building of monolingual thesauri are assumed.Thesauri
- Terminologies/thesauri Pilot Program
OCLC is exploring a service that provides access to multiple thesauri for libraries, museums, and archives. The service will create consistent metadata for collections providing mappings across thesauri to assist in relating terminology. It will provide...
- Thesauri
NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus is merger of five existing thesauri. It would be interesting to find the details of just how they were merged. Lets hope a paper or conference presentation becomes available.Jessica L. Milstead is the primary architect of...
- Rdf
A Thesaurus Interchange Format for the Semantic Web is now availableA product of the SWAD-Europe project, the Thesaurus Interchange Format (TIF) enables the development, integration and deployment of thesauri on the semantic web. The TIF is an RDF schema,...
- Mapping Thesauri
Another, much larger, mapping of terms from one thesauri to another is mapping MeSH to LCSH as done at Northwestern University. "Mapping the MeSH and LCSH Systems" by Tony Olson and Gary Strawn Information Technology and Libraries. 16(1) (March 1997)...
- Subject Access
The Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC) of the Canadian government has a page, Classification, Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies.The resources in this section are directed at persons interested in improving the organization and retrieval...