INDEXING RESOURCES ON THE WWW -- Database Indexing, Controlled Vocabularies & Thesauri
Database Indexing, Controlled Vocabularies & Thesauri
- Constructing and Using Thesauri & Term Lists
- Links to Online Thesauri, Term Lists & Classification Schemes
- Online Classification Schemes
- Database Indexing Guidelines & DIscussion
- Automatic Indexing
- Information Architecture
Constructing & Using Thesauri & Term Lists
About Thesauri, by Jessica L. MilsteadAcross Languages, Across Cultures: Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries, by Carol Peters and Eugenio Picchi
Adding Natural Language Processing Techniques to the Entry Vocabulary Module Building Process, by Youngin Kim and Barbara Norgard
ADL Thesaurus Protocol
Art & Architecture Thesaurus: User's Guide to the AAT Data Releases [PDF version]
Building a Synonymous Search Index, by Peter Morville
Canadian Literacy Thesaurus -- Indexing Guidelines
Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy, by Marti A. Hearst and Chandu Karadi
The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project
Controlled Subject Vocabularies and Thesauri
Converting a Controlled Vocabulary Into an Ontology: The Case of GEM, by Jian Qin and Stephen Paling
Cuisinarts, E-Commerce, and ... Controlled Vocabularies, by Lou Rosenfeld
Losee, "Decisions in Thesaurus Construction and Use" Information Processing & Management, 43(4), 2007, 958-968.
A Definition of Thesauri and Classification as Indexing Tools. by Aida Slavic
Design/selection criteria for software used to handle controlled vocabularies. UK Office of the eEnvoy
Developing a Functions Thesaurus: Guidelines for Commonwealth Agencies
Documenting & Access: Indexing with the Getty Vocabularies, by Patricia Harpring [click on link for PowerPoint presentation]
Enriched Thesauri as Networked Knowledge Bases for People and Machines, by Dagobert Soergel [pdf document]
Entry Vocabulary Modules and Agents, by Barbara Norgard
EPA Terminology Reference System (TRS), by Larry Fitzwater and Linda Spencer [PowerPoint presentation]
An Evaluation Methodology For Clinical Vocabularies And Evaluation Of The Read Codes
Extracting Value from Automated Classification Tools : The Role of Manual Involvement and Controlled Vocabularies, by Kat Hagedorn
FAST: Development of Simplified Headings for Metadata, by Rebecca Dean
Formal Ontology and Information Systems, by Nicola Guarino
Formal Ontology for Subject, by Christopher A. Welty and Jessica Jenkins
From Authority Files to Ontologies: Knowledge Management in a Networked Environment by Joseph A. Busch [PowerPoint presentation]
Functions of a Thesaurus / Classification / Ontological Knowledge Base, by Dagobert Soergel
Geographic Names: The Implementation of a Gazetteer in a Georeferenced Digital Library by Linda L. Hill, James Frew, and Qi Zheng
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names: User's Guide to the TGN Data Releases
Getty Vocabularies Download Center
The Gist of Journal Indexing, by Carolyn Weaver
A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus
How Do I Build a Thesaurus?
How Do You Build a Thesaurus?, by Peter Morville
A Hypertextual Interface for a Searcher's Thesaurus, by Eric H. Johnson and Pauline A. Cochrane
I Say What I Mean, But do I Mean What I Say?, by Paul Miller
In theBbeginning was theWword : Making English Heritage Thesauri Available On-line, by/ Daphne Charles
Interactive Term Suggestion for Users of Digital Libraries: Using Subject Thesauri and Co-occurrence Lists for Information Retrieval, by Bruce R. Schatz and others
Introduction to Metadata, edited by Murtha Baca
Introduction to Vocabularies
Introduction to Vocabulary and Classification [Heritage Canada]
LIV (Legislative Indexing Vocabulary) Introduction and Manual
Mapping Entry Vocabulary to Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies, by Michael Buckland and others
Mapping New LCSH with DDC numbers
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Indexing Tips
Metadata for the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus
A Multi-thesauri Management System with Web Interface, by Marcia Lei Zeng and Yu Chen [PowerPoint presentation]
NISO Z39.19: Standard for Structure and Organization of Information Retrieval Thesauri, by Jessica L. Milstead
Presentations from the Subject Analysis and Retrieval Working Group Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 29, 1999
RBMS Manual: Thesaurus Construction and Maintenance Guidelines
RDF and Thesauri, by Ron Daniel Jr. [PowerPoint presentation]
The Role of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) in Vocabulary Control, by Stuart J. Nelson [PowerPoint presentation]
Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files, by Gail Hodge
Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Sources/Systems -- Draft
Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies (Resources for Librarians and Archivists)
Thesauri on the Web: Current Developments and Trends, by Ali Asghar shiri and Crawford Revie [click on link for PowerPoint presentation]
Thesaurus Construction [tutorial from Western Ontario]
Thesaurus Construction and Maintenance Guidelines [RBMS Manual]
Thesaurus Design and Development, by Ray R. Larson [PowerPoint presentation]
Thesaurus Design for Information Systems - seminar by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg
Thesaurus Principles and Practice, by Leonard Will
Thesaurus Software and Keyword Constellation Construction, by Jan Wright
The Unified Medical Language System, by Stuart Nelson [PowerPoint presentation]
Union List of Artist Names: User's Guide to the ULAN Data Releases
Use of Thesauri in the Full-Text Environment, by Jessica L. Milstead
Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability, by Christina Wodtke
Vocabulary as a Central Concept in Library and Information Science, by Michael Buckland
Vocabulary Links:// Thesaurus Design for Information Systems: seminar by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg, Synthesis by Fred Brown
What is an Ontology?, by Tom Gruber
Whither Come the Words?, by Elizabeth D. Liddy [click on link for PowerPoint presentation]
WWW -- Wealth, Weariness or Waste: Controlled Vocabulary and Thesauri in Support of Online Information Access, by David Batty
Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation, by Mike Taylor
Links to Online
Thesauri, Term Lists & Classification Schemes
Aquatic Sciences
and Fisheries Thesaurus
AGRICOLA
Subject Category Code Scope Notes
Agrovoc
The
Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts
and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction
Alexandria
Digital Library Feature Type Thesaurus -- Version of July
3, 2002
Alzheimer's Disease Thesaurus
AOD Thesaurus [Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus]
APAIS
Thesaurus [Australian Public Affairs Information
Service]
Archaeological
Objects Thesaurus
The
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus -
AGIFT
Australian Pictorial
Thesaurus (APT)
Australian
Standard Classification of Occupations, Second Edition
The Astronomy
Thesaurus
A Basic
Dictionary of ASL Terms [American Sign Language]
Biocomplexity
Thesaurus
BIOSIS
Controlled Vocabulary: Lists
The British
Museum Materials Thesaurus
The British
Museum Object Names Thesaurus
Broad System or Ordering
BZZURKK
- The Thesaurus of Champions
Canadian Adult Literacy Thesaurus
Canadian
Geographical Names
Canadian
Literacy Thesaurus
Canadian
Subject Headings
Carnivorous
Plant Database
The CATIE Thesaurus [Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange]
The CERES/NBII Thesaurus
Partnership Project
Controlled Health Thesaurus
The Cooks Thesaurus
CRTC Thesaurus
ETHNOLOGUE: Languages
of the World
Eurodicautom
Feature
Type Thesaurus -- Alexandria Digital Library
Florida
Environments Online Thesaurus
General
Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, GEMET
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Global
Legal Information Network
GMET- General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus
Gnomon
Thesauri [in German]
Government
of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
A
Guide to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants [contains
links to organized lists of proper names]
HASSET
- Humanities And Social Science Electronic Thesaurus
Health and Ageing Thesaurus
Heavy
Metal Thesaurus
Historical
Thesaurus of English
HIV/AIDS Treatment Thesaurus [Canadian]
Iconclass
INFODATA-Thesaurus
International
Classifications [from WIPO]
International
Index of Film Periodicals Subject Headings
The
International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) [Canada]
Keyword
AAA [Australia]
Legislative
Indexing Vocabulary (LIV)
Lexical
FreeNet
Library
of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists
Los
Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database Subject Thesaurus
The Mathematics Subject Classification
(MSC)
MeSH Subject
Headings
Multilingual
Egyptological Thesaurus
NAL Agricultural
Thesaurus
NAL
Animal Use Alternatives Thesaurus
NASA Thesaurus
National
Monuments Record Thesauri
The
NCBI Taxonomy
NEXIS
Topical Indexing
North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS)
The OECD
MACROTHESAURUS
Ontosaurus
-- Loom Web Browser
Optics
Classification and Indexing Scheme (OCIS)
Physics
and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)
The Plumb Design
Visual Thesaurus
Population
Multilingual Thesaurus
Public Health Language
Schools Online Thesaurus
SCOP: Structural
Classification of Proteins
Seattle
City Clerk Thesaurus
The
Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
Social History
and Industrial Classification
Spindrift
Music Thesaurus
Statistics
Canada Thesaurus
Taxomony Warehouse
TBITS 39: Treasury Board Information Management Standard Part 01: Government Online Metadata Standard
TBITS 39: Treasury Board Information Management Standard Part 2: Controlled Vocabulary Standard
Terms of Environment [Environmental Terms]
Thesaurus
Ethics in the Life Sciences
Thesaurus for
Graphic Materials II (Genre and Physical Characteristic
Terms)
Thesaurus for
Graphic Materials I (Subject Terms)
Thesaurus
Musicarum Latinarum
Thesaurus of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Thesaurus of Musical Instruments
TreeBASE [relational
database of phylogenetic information]
TESE - Thesaurus for Education Systems in Europe
UK Archival Thesaurus (UKAT)
UNBIS
Thesaurus [United Nations Bibliographic
Information System]
UNESCO Thesaurus
Unified
Medical Language System (UMLS)
The
Union List of Artist Names Browser
United
Nations Statistics Division Classification Registry
Vocabulary
of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume
wordHOARD
WorldBank Thesaurus
The ACM Computing
Classification System [1998 Version]
ADAM: Art,
Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway. Index+
Dewey Search
Athena
Minerology
Canadian Information
By Subject
CyberDewey
CyberStacks
The ICONCLASS Browser
Journal
of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
LC
Classification Outline
Manual
of U.S. Patent Classification
Materials
Organized by Mathematical Subject Classification
Mathematics Subject Classification
North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS)
The Physics
and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)
Accelerating
Indexed Searching, by Charles J. Bontempo and C. M. Saracco
Addressing
the Heterogeneity of Subject Indexing in the ADS Databases,
by David S. Dubin
Best
Practices for Indexing and Abstracting Tobacco Industry Documents
CERIF:
The Common European Research Information Format Subject Indexing
Guidelines
Citation
Indexing -- Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology,
and Humanities
Classifying
Internet Objects
ERIC
Indexing Guidelines
FAQ [Frequently Asked Questions]
Frequently Asked Questions about Indexing for Medline
Frequently Asked Questions on Indexing and Information Architecture
Grounded
Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification
Indexing Guidelines for the ADAM Database, by Rebecca Bradshaw
Indexing
Public Databases, by Lee Mandell [PowerPoint presentation]
Public
Database Indexing [North Carolina Department of Cultural
Resources Division of Archives and History]
Automatic
Subject Indexing using An Associative Neural Network,
by Yi-Ming Chung and others
Digital Libraries
- Automatic Indexing
Important
Automatic Indexing Concepts
Levels
of the Machine-Aided Indexing Continuum
Argus Center for Information
Architecture
An
Information Architect's Manifesto, by Peter Morville
Community
Infrastructure for Information Architects
Defining
Information Architecture, by Peter Morville
Information
Architecture Glossary, By Kat Hagedorn
Information Architecture Resources
Information
Design: Part 1 [from Webmonkey Radio -- streaming audio
-- includes useful links]
Introduction
to Information Architecture, by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter
Morville [chapter from Information Architecture for the World
Wide Web Designing Large-scale Web Sites
Squishy's
Crash Course in Information Architecture --Tutorial, by
John Shiple [from WebMonkey]
Summit
2000: Defining Information Architecture [includes links
to presentations]
A Visual Vocabulary
for Describing Information Architecture and Interaction Design [version 1.1b --6 March 2002], by Jesse James Garrett
