3. Design and development
Developing a thesaurus is a complex operation. The nature, thematic coverage and specificity required are the main factors influencing the duration, complexity and cost of the operation.
3.1 Standards and guidelines
There are a number of guiding principles that are considered essential to the project of developing a thesaurus. Compliance with the guidelines ensures that the thesaurus is internally consistent and structurally compatible with similar tools.
The most recent standard, ISO 25964Tesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies (2011-2012), is applicable to the development and management of structured vocabularies representing subjects and concepts used in information systems, hierarchical directories, indexes and classification...
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Bibliography
Software tools(non-exhaustive list)
MTM (free) http://www.icie.com.pl/
The W32 (free) http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/freeware.htm
Websites
A-Z of Thesauri (HILT High-level thesaurus project) http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Sources/thesauri.html
DALBIN (S.). – Descriptors: Site dedicated to thesauri and other controlled vocabularies for information access. http://www.dossierdoc.typepad.com/descripteurs/
...Events
World Wide Web Consortium. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference. W3C Recommendation, August 18, 2009 http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference
World Wide Web Consortium. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer. W3C Working Group Note, August 18, 2009
Standards and norms
- Règles d'établissement des thésaurus monolingues - NF Z47-100 - 1981
- Thésaurus et interopérabilité avec les autres vocabulaires. Partie 1 : Thésaurus - ISO 25964 - 2011
- Information and documentation – Guidelines for the creation, structure and presentation of indexes - ISO 999 - 1996
- Codes pour la représentation des noms de langues - ISO 639 - 1998-2010
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