Thesaurus Resources on WWW


Title: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Thesaurus
Institution: ASFA
Description: ASFIS Reference Series, No. 6, Revision 1, 1986 Compiled by: E. Fagetti, D.W. Privett, & J.R.L. Sears
URL: http://www.csa.com/helpV3/ab.html
available on-line
Language(s): English

Title: Berliner Arbeitskreis Information
Institution: Berliner Arbeitskreis Information
Description: Systeme für Terminologiearbeit/Übersetzung/Thesauruspflege/natürliche Spracheingaben
URL: http://bak-information.ub.tu-berlin.de/software/term.html
Language(s): German

Title: ENVOC INFOTERRA Thesaurus
Institution: UNEP
Description: Multilingual Thesaurus of Environmental Terms. On-line version is not up-to-date and contains only English Terms.
URL: http://www.cedar.at/unep/infoterra/
Environment Thesaurus, Available On-line
Language(s): Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Title: EUROVOC
Institution: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Description: The Eurovoc thesaurus is a multilanguage and multidisciplinary thesaurus of the European Parliament and the Office for Official Publications of the EC, which is available in nine languages of the European Union countries and used for indexing
  • in the EPOQUE database (all external and internal documentation of the European Parliament);
  • in the Celex database (the complete legislation of the European Union - as from next year records are to be provided with subject descriptions);
  • in the CATEL system (enquiry and ordering system for EU publications);
  • in the Library of the European Parliament;
  • in numerous national parliamentary and other libraries.
Third edition FX-07-92-000-EN-C ECU 120
Volume 1 - Permuted alphabetical version (1995 438 pp. FX-07-92-001-EN-C ECU 78,00)
Volume 2 - Subject Oriented Version (1995 232 pp. FX-07-92-002-EN-C ECU 38,00)
Volume 3 - Multilingual version (1995 245 pp. FX-07-92-003-EN-C ECU 38.00)
URL: http://www.psp.cz/cgi-bin/eng/kps/knih/ee_geninfo.htm
Multilingual
Language(s): English, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese

Title: General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (GEMET)
Institution: European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources
Description: The present Version 2000 of GEMET presents 5.298 descriptors, including 109 Top Terms, and 1.264 synonyms in English.
URL: http://www.mu.niedersachsen.de/cds/etc-cds_neu/software.html#GEMET
Available in 3 different formats: MS Access 97 database, PDF, ThesShow (Thesaurus visualisation tool)
Language(s): English, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovak, American English. In the GEMET PDFs, also Basque (Euskara) is included.

Title: NASA Thesaurus
Institution: NASA
Description: Thesaurus of NASA. Browsable on-line and available as PDF File.
URL: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htm
Available On-line
Language(s): English

Title: Roget's Thesaurus
Institution: ???
Description: Peter Roget's Classical Thesaurus. The Thesaurus can be searched on-line and offers alphabetical and hierarchical access.
URL: http://www.thesaurus.com/
Available On-line
Language(s): English

Title: UDK-Thesaurus
Institution: UBA Berlin + UBA Wien
Description: Thesaurus of the German and Austrian Catalogue of Data Sources (UDK) available on-line as PDF-Files
URL: http://gis.ubavie.gv.at/thes/f_suche.htm
Environment Thesaurus, Available On-line, Multilingual
Language(s): German, English

Title: Thesauri im WWW
Institution: Fachhochschule Köln
Fachbereich Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen
Description: Quellen und Hinweise auf im WWW verfügbare Klassifikationssysteme und Thesauri im WWW sowie über Thesaurus Management Software. Diese Seiten entstanden aus Arbeitsergebnissen von Studierenden des FB Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen und des FB Sprachen im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung 'Terminologiedokumentation und mehrsprachige Thesauri' im SS 98.
URL: http://www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/labor/bir/thesauri_new/index.htm
Available On-line
Language(s): Multilingual

Title: Controlled vocabularies
Institution: Queensland University of Technology, Michael Robert Middleton
Description: Thesaurus sites, classification schemes, Thesaurus management software
URL: http://www2.fit.qut.edu.au/InfoSys/middle/cont_voc.html
Language(s): English

Title: Classification schemes and thesauri on-line
Institution: University of Applied Sciences, Cologne
Dep. Of Librarianship and Information Science
Description: Information about and links to classification schemes and thesauri accessible on the Web, and Thesaurus Management Software, an overview of products and information about their availabilty. The thesaurus collection is based on the results of the interdisciplinary seminar 'Terminology documentation and multilingual thesauri' held in summer 1998 and in which participated students from both the Department of LIS and the Department of Languages.
URL: http://www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/Labor/Bir/thesauri_new/indexen.htm
Available On-line
Language(s): Multilingual




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Contact: Rudolf Legat
Last modified: 19.12.2000
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