Thesaurus Links

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RDF thesaurus formats

• TIF RDF Thesaurus Interchange Format, SWAD-E Project (2003).
• ILRT RDF thesaurus draft specification (2001). Also here.
  
• Limber Project RDF schema for ISO compliant multi-lingual thesauri (2001). Also here.
  
• CERES/NBII Project RDF thesaurus descriptor standard (2000). Also here.
  
• DRC DAML+OIL ontology for the CALL thesaurus (2002). Also here.
  
• ETB RDF schema for the multilingual educational thesaurus version 0.4 (2001). Also here.
  
• GEM Consortium RDF schema for monolingual thesauri (2002).
• Agrovoc/Kaon RDF ontology/thesaurus schema (2001).

XML thesaurus formats

• Zthes Z39.50 profile for thesaurus navigation (2001).
• TML thesaurus markup language (1999).
• ADL Thesaurus Protocol XML formats (2002).
• MeSH XML format (2001).
• GEMET XML format (2003).
• APAIS XML thesaurus format, an extension of Zthes (2000).
• Open University thesaurus schemas (2002).
• Soergel XML thesaurus specification (2001).

Related formats

• OWL Web Ontology Language (2003)
• XTM XML Topic Maps 1.0 (2001).
• XFML eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language (2002).
• MARC 21 format for classification data (2002).
• MARTIF terminology interchange format (1999)
• bcXML taxonomy format (2003)
• KIF Knowledge Interchange Format (1998).
• OML Ontology Markup Language version 0.3 (1999).
• CKML Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language (1999).
• DAML Darpa Agent Makrup Language (2001)
• OIL Ontology Inference Layer (2000).
• RDF Resource Description Framework (1999).
• VocML Vocabulary Markup Language (2001).
• GlossXML XML format for glossaries.

Thesaurus standards

• NISO/ANSI Z39.19 (1993).
• ISO 2788 (1986).
• ISO 5964 (1985).

Related standards

• MARC Standards (Library of Congress).
• ISO terminology and vocabulary standards summary (ISO technical committee TC37 leaflet).
• ISO 12200 (negotiated MARTIF) format for interchange of structured terminoloigcal data.
• ISO 12620 (data categories).
• ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps, 2nd edition text (2002).
• ISO 10241 (1992) International terminology standards - preparation and layout.

Thesauri free to download

• MeSH Medical Subject Headings. [XML]
• ELSST European Language Social Science Thesaurus. [RDF, Sample]
• Agrovoc. Download RDF source. [RDF]
• Wordnet [Application]
• EuroWordNet [Application, Sample]
• Eurovoc [Text]
• CALL Centre for Army Lessons Learned thesaurus. Data here. [RDF]
• HPMULTI European multilingual thesaurus on health promotion. [Text]
• Health and Ageing Theasurus Australian Government. [Text]
• GEMET General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus. [XML, Text]
• APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service thesaurus. [XML, Text]
• PACS Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme. [Text]
• NASA Thesaurus. [Text]
• ETB European Treasury Browser Thesaurus. [Text]
• WordWeb [Application]
• AOD Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus, NIAAA. [Text]
• Bioethics Thesaurus [Text]
• Astronomy thesaurus (Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University). Also see here for download. [Text]
• Australian Picture Thesaurus [Text, XML]
• EET European Education Thesaurus. [Sample, Text]
• IRIS keyword thesaurus. [Text]
• TRIBLEX Thesaurus, International Labour Organisation. [Text]
• Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Thesaurus [Text]
• Reaction Chemistry Thesaurus [Application]
• OpenThesaurus - Deutscher Thesaurus [Text]

Thesauri with online browsing

• AAT Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
• ULAN Union List of Artist Names.
• TGN Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
• Canadian government thesauri and controlled vocabularies
• Ortelius Thesaurus.
• MDA Archaeological Objects Theasurus
• MDA Waterways Object Name Thesaurus
• British Museum Object Names Thesaurus
• British Museum Materials Thesaurus
• Library of Congress Thesauri, GLIN thesaurus for the global legal information network, LIV legislative indexing vocabulary, TGM I thesaurus for graphic materials (subject terms), TGM II thesaurus for graphic materials (genre and physical characteristic terms).
• VET-Thes Vocational Education and Training thesaurus.
• Merriam-Webster OnLine
• Thesaurus.com
• Roget's, Roget's II
• Wordsmyth
• Visual Thesaurus
• The Cook's Thesaurus
• UNESCO Thesaurus
• Lexical FreeNet
• NAL Agricultural Theasurus
• Asian Vegetables Thesaurus
• CAB thesaurus for the applied life sciences.
• ASIS thesaurus of information science.
• Biocomplexity Thesaurus, NBII/CSA.
• The Crude Thesaurus
• Thesaurus of Musical Instruments
• BZZURKK! the thesaurus of champions
• Online Spanish Thesaurus
• FEOL Florida Environments Online Thesaurus
• Statistics Canada Thesaurus
• CERL Thesaurus Consortium of European Research Libraries.
• Semiotischer Theasurus (German).
• Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science and Technology
• NIZW Thesaurus (Dutch)

Other thesauri

• LCSH Library of Congress Subject headings.
• Bliss bibliographic classification scheme.
• DDC Dewey Decimal Classification scheme.
• UDC Universal Decimal Classification scheme.
• HTE Historical Thesaurus of English
• PLANT Purdue Landscape and Nursery Thesaurus
• Population Multilingual Thesaurus, CICRED.

Projects involving thesauri

• SWAD-E Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe, thesaurus work here. (Active)
• Agricultural Ontology Service Project, FAO (Active).
• FACET (Completed)
• LIMBER Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources (Completed)
• OMT Ontology Metadata Thesauri Project (Completed)
• OCLC Terminology Service Project (Active).

Thesaurus software

• MultiTes Thesaurus Management Systems (proprietory)
• Oracle Thesaurus Management System v4i (proprietory)
• SIS-TMS Thesaurus Management System

Thesaurus Services, APIs and Protocols

• Z39.50
• ADL Thesaurus Protocol
• GSAFD / LCSH Web Services (OCLC Terminology Services Project)

Papers on thesauri

• Representation and Retrieval in Faceted Systems, Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. 2002.
• Thesaurus based indexing and retrieval, Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. 2002.
• Augmenting thesaurus relationships: possibilities for retrieval, Tudhope D., Alani H., Jones C. 2001.
• Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping, M. Doerr, 2001.
• A Thesaurus Interchange Format in RDF, B.M. Matthews, K. Miller, M.D. Wilson, 2001.
• From Thesaurus to Ontology, B.J. Wielinga, A.Th. Schreiber, J. Wielemaker, J.A.C. Sandberg, 2001.
• Systems of Knowledge Organisation for Digital Libraries, G. Hodge, 2000.
• Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, International Terminology Working Group, 1997.
• TML: A Thesaurus Markup Language, M. Lee, S. Baillie, J. Dell'Oro, 1999.
• SIS-TMS: A Thesaurus Management System for Distributed Digital Collections, M. Doerr, I. Fundulaki, 1998.
• A Proposal on Extended Interthesaurus Links Semantics, M. Doerr, I. Fundulaki, 1998.
• Functions of a thesaurus / classification / ontological knowledge base, D. Soergel, 1997.
• Review of KOS Standards, D. Soergel, 2003.

Presentations on thesauri

• Migrating Thesauri to the Semantic Web, B.M. Matthews, 2003.
• Making Thesauri Work in the Semantic Web, A. Miles, 2003.
• A Thesaurus Interchange format for migrating to the Semantic Web, M. Wilson, 2001.

Other resources

• Web Thesaurus Compendium
• Taxonomy Warehouse
• Publications on thesaurus construction and use, links page by Willpower Information.
• Software for building and editing thesauri, links page by Willpower Information.
• NKOS Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems/Services

Page last updated 14/10/2003 by A.J.Miles.