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1. What is a thesaurus?
1.1 Definitions
A thesaurus is a list of words or expressions used as terms in a particular field of knowledge or discipline, field of activity or institutional or organizational environment. The term is the verbal representation of a concept.
"School bus", "Marketing", "Shale gas" and "Internal combustion engine" are just some of the terms used.
Van Slype defines the thesaurus by its main function, that of "unambiguously representing the content of documents and questions in a given documentary system, and [...] assisting the user in indexing documents and questions"
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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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