Home

Background Information

Review of Existing Indexing Languages

Analysis of Structure of Indexing Language in Thesaurus

Thesaurus

User Guide
Alphabetical Display
Hierarchical Display
Top Term Display
Rotated Display
Graphical Display

SMART SUITS THESAURUS

The Smart Suits Thesaurus conforms to the Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri developed by the American National Standards Institute [ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - 1993].

In Background Information, we describe Smart Suits - the organization behind the thesaurus; the collection which the thesaurus is developed for; and the users of the thesaurus.

The Analysis of Structure of Indexing Language covers the following areas:

• Suitability for the Environment
• Type of Indexing Language
• Pre-Coordinate Headings and Post-Coordinate Retrieval
• Forms of Terms
• Precision and Recall
• Specificity and Exhaustivity