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7. What and who is the thesaurus for?
The thesaurus was conceived in a context of rapid development of new disciplines and new types of documentary collections, the modeling of new approaches to information use, and the increasingly imposing presence of computing in documentary environments. The thesaurus, whose role was originally to ensure consistency in the representation of concepts and to facilitate the task of the information seeker, became a useful component of information systems in the second half of the 20th century.
The essential functions of the thesaurus are :
make information and document retrieval easier and more efficient;
allow for exhaustive retrieval by linking concepts and terms with similar meanings;
reduce the difficulties of representation and retrieval caused by...
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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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