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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. Milstead

Across 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

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

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 [PDF version]

Getty Vocabularies Download Center

The Gist of Journal Indexing, by Carolyn Weaver

Guide for the Development and Maintenance of Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada. Treasury Board Secretariat

A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings

A Guided Tour to Developing Ontologies Using Ontolingua

Guidelines for Constructing a Museum Object Name Thesaurus

Guidelines for Forming Language Equivalents: A Model Based on the Art & Architecture 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

Indexing Guidelines for USGS Gateway

Interactive Term Suggestion for Users of Digital Libraries: Using Subject Thesauri and Co-occurrence Lists for Information Retrieval, by Bruce R. Schatz and others

Internet/Intranet and Thesauri, by Branka Kosovac

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

RDF and Thesauri, by Ron Daniel Jr. [PowerPoint presentation]

Relational Data Structures for Extensible Thesauri, by Randy Ballew [PowerPoint presentation]

Reusable Ontologies: A Key Enabler for Electronic Commerce, byr Richard Fikes [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 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 [PDF version]

Use of Thesauri in the Full-Text Environment, by Jessica L. Milstead

USGS Gateway to the Earth, by Candy Schwartz [PowerPoint presentation]
USGS Gateway to the Earth : Controlled Vocabulary Project

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

AGRI/AGRISANASTO [Thesaurus of the Agricultural Library at the University of Helsinki]

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

Australian Transport Index Thesaurus

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 Geographical Names

Canadian Literacy Thesaurus

Canadian Subject Headings

Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science and Technology

Carnivorous Plant Database

The CATIE Thesaurus [Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange]

The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project

The Cooks Thesaurus

CRTC Thesaurus

CSQuest

Curtin Keyword Thesaurus [derived from the Keyword AAA Thesaurus]

ETHNOLOGUE: Languages of the World

Eurodicautom

The European multilingual thesaurus on health promotion in 12 languages [downloadable thesaurus]

Feature Type Thesaurus -- Alexandria Digital Library

Flora of North America

Florida Environments Online Thesaurus

GEM Controlled Vocabularies

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

INFOTERRA Thesaurus

INGRID Library 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 - Principles of Structure and Policies for Application: Contents

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists

Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database Subject Thesaurus

The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)

MeSH Subject Headings

MISQ Keyword Classification Scheme

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)

Occupations Thesaurus -- Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)

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 Thesaurus

Royal Canadian Mounted Police English-French Police Terminological Glossary = Lexique terminologique policier français-anglais de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada

Schools Online Thesaurus

SCOP: Structural Classification of Proteins

Seattle City Clerk Thesaurus

The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

Simple Subject Headings

Social History and Industrial Classification

The Southwest Thesaurus

Spindrift Music Thesaurus

Statistics Canada Thesaurus

Taxomony Warehouse

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

USGS Enterprise Web Thesaurus

USGS Gateway to the Earth Project: Version 9

Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume

wordHOARD

WorldBank Thesaurus

Zoological Record Subject Thesaurus

Zoological Record Systematic Thesaurus



Online Classification Schemes
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

Expanding Universe: A Classified Search Tool for Amateur Astronomy

GRAMA Index to Classifications [Utah State Archives]

The ICONCLASS Browser

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System

LC Classification Outline

Library of Congress Classification System [from About.com]

Manual of U.S. Patent Classification

Materials Organized by Mathematical Subject Classification

Mathematics Subject Classification

MISQ Keyword Classification Scheme

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

The Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)



Database Indexing Guidelines & DIscussions
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

The Concept of Citation Indexing: A Unique and Innovative Tool for Navigating the Research Literature

ERIC Indexing Guidelines

Frequently Asked Questions About Indexing

Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification

History of Citation Indexing

Indexing Guidelines for the ADAM Database, by Rebecca Bradshaw

Indexing Guidelines for USGS Gateway

Indexing Public Databases, by Lee Mandell [PowerPoint presentation]

Public Database Indexing [North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Division of Archives and History]


Automatic Indexing
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


Information Architecture
Argus Center for Information Architecture

An Information Architect's Manifesto, by Peter Morville

Articles and Papers on Information Architecture [from Elegant Hack]

Community Infrastructure for Information Architects

Defining Information Architecture, by Peter Morville

Information Architecture and User Centered Design Reading List, [books] by Christina Wodtke [from Elegant Hack]

Information Architecture Glossary, By Kat Hagedorn

Information Architecture Links [from Elegant Hack]

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