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Controlled vocabularies,
thesauri and classification systems available
in the WWW. DC Subject
4 Subject
The qualifiers below are recommended for the Subject element :
- DC.Subject.unqualified
- Définition: The topic of the content of the resource.
- Commentaire: Typically, a Subject describe a topic of the resource.
- DC.Subject.keywords
- Définition: a Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases.
- DC.Subject.controlled vocabulary
- Définition: The Subject will be expressed as controlled vocabulary.
- DC.Subject.classification
- Définition: The Subject will be expressed as classification codes that describe a topic of the resource.
Thesauri and other controlled vocabularies, available for the choice of (controlled) terms
Generalities. (All subjects. Library and information sciences, Media, Computing)
Philosophy and psychology
Religion
Social sciences. (Economics, Law, Government, Society, Environment, Education, Commerce)
- HASSET: Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (based on a UNESCO thesaurus)
- SOSIG Thesaurus, based on HASSET (linked to a search feature for the SOSIG Internet Catalogue)
- OECD Macrothesaurus (Social and economic sciences; English, Spanish, French). alt. version
- Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften (in German)
- POPIN Population thesaurus (demography, population studies)
- Bioethics Thesaurus , 1998 edition, updated 1999 (BIOETHICSLINE)
- Scimp/Scanp Business and Economics Thesaurus (LIRN project; English, French, and Portuguese)
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV; LC)
- Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Thesaurus (LC)
- EURODICAUTOM (multilingual EU terminology, with definitions)
- European Environment Agency (Group of multilingual thesauri)
- The CERES Thesaurus Browser (browse and search the CERES Thesaurus, EPA Terms of Environment, GCMD Earth Science keywords, GEMET Environmental Thesaurus, IUCN Thesaurus etc.)
- CERES Thematic Thesaurus (California Environmental Resources Evaluation System)
- EPA Terms of Environment (terms, definitions, abbreviations, acronyms)
- Global Change Master Directory, Valid Keyword Lists (GCMD, CIESIN, INFOTERRA etc.)
- Global Change Master Directory, Keyword List draft: Biosphere
- EnVoc Thesaurus (INFOTERRA database, UNEP. In English, French, Spanish)
- Umweltdatenkatalog Online Thesaurus, Oesterreichisches Umweltbundesamt (in German and English)
- GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, GEMET (EEA. Java Plug-in needed). THESShow for Windows.
- ERIC Thesaurus (Educational Resources Information Center, ERIC in the US)
- European Education Thesaurus (Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français)
Language. (Linguistics, Languages)
Natural sciences and mathematics. (Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Biology)
- NASA Thesaurus
- Astronomy Thesaurus (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish)
- CAS General Subject Vocabulary Helper, Chemical Abstracts
- Thesaurus for Liquid Crystal Research and Applications
- Thesaurus viewer for several, partly multilingual, Geoscience thesauri. InfoData Geo, ETH and others (GFZ Potsdam, Germany)
- German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) Thesaurus, a semantic network for Earth observation oriented browsing: remote sensing, sensors, athmospheric chemistry etc.
- World Species List - Animals, Plants, Microbes (Envirolink)
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Biological Names (Member of Species 2000)
- NCBI Taxonomy database (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum), ING
- Vascular Plant Families and Genera
- Internet Directory For Botany: Checklists, Floras, Taxonomic Databases (Collection of commented links)
- Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
- Bird taxonomy, graphical browser (connected to NBII searching)
- World List of Insect Families
- Fossil and Recent Brachiopod Genera
Technology (Applied sciences). (Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture)
The arts. (Architecture, Fine arts, Graphic arts, Music)
Literature and rhetoric
Geography and history
General vocabulary tools, available for the choice of words
Authority lists:
- To look up vocabulary from many thesauri use the LC Subject Authority File (Select Database: Subject Authority File)
- To look up the correct form of names (as subjects) use the LC Name Authority File (Select Database: Name Authority File)
Lexical tools (English):
Lexical FreeNet (compute relations between concepts, shortest conceptual path, uses semantic relations from WordNet and statistical analyses of large corpora)
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus (visualized thesaurus, accesses WordNet to display a given word graphically connected to related words)
Experimental WWW interface to the WordNet 1.5 lexical database, at ILRT, Bristol (for synonyms etc. to plain English words)
WordNet 1.6 on the Web - a Lexical Database for English (Princeton)
Alternative search interfaces to WordNet
Roget's Internet Thesaurus (English synonym reference, words and phrases)
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (definitions, synonyms)
Dictionaries:
Dictionaries (The Linguist List)
OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder(search 350 dictionaries in one step)
Wordbot (translations , synonyms, references)
WWWebster Thesaurus and dictionary
Classification schemes, available for the choice of categories and notations
Universal:
- Library of Congress Classification (LCCS, not quite complete, not authorized)
- Library of Congress Classification Outline (LCCS, official version, shallow)
- Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC 21 Summaries, three top levels only: NO LONGER AVAILABLE JAN 2000)
- Dewey Web Browser, limited research prototype
- Dewey Decimal Classification: WWlib Classification Browser (limited, not authorized)
- Universal Decimal Classification (small, not authorized selection, in English, French and Dutch)
- Universal Decimal Classification (U. Alberta; small, not authorized selection)
- Universella Decimalklassifikationen. Svensk elektronisk utgaava (Swedish edition, two levels of hierarchy, not authorized)
- Information Coding Classification (ICC)
- Thegateway Subject Index
National general:
- Regensburger Verbundklassifikation (RVK)
- Nederlandse Basisclassificatie (BC) (Scheme integrated with a service)
- Emneregister til Deweys desimalklassifikasjon (DDK. NBO. In Norwegian)
- BIBSYS emneregister (DDK, UDK. In Norwegian)
- SAB, Sweden (Scheme integrated with a linklist at Moelndals Stadsbibliotek. In Swedish)
- SAB classification codes, searchable and browsable list (in Swedish)
Subject specific, international:
- Mathematics Subject Classification 2000 (MSC), with conversion tables to the 1991 version
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- Mathematics Subject Classifications (from AMS)
- International Reviews on Mathematical Education/Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik: Subject Classification Scheme (ZDM)
- ACM Computing Classification System (CR)
- RIS Classification ("Review of Information Science")
- Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)
- Structural Classification of Proteins (scop)
- Ei Classification (Engineering; Scheme integrated with the EELS service)
- AGRICOLA Subject Category Code, incl. Scope notes (from AgNIC/NAL)
- ICONCLASS (iconographical research, documentation of images)
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Subject specific, national:
- DTV's emnesystem og tesaurus, in Danish, building on the Engineering parts of UDC
- US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Classification
- AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology) and CARIS (Current Agricultural Research Information System) Classification (FAO) in German
- Klassifikation Sozialwissenschaften für FORIS und SOLIS (in German and English)
Automatic Dewey classification of HTML pages, OCLC, now only available for CORC users
List of other schemes not freely and/or digitally available:
USMARC Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions. (Part III: Classification Sources and Part IV: Subject/Index Term Sources; these documents are currently under revision for a new edition).
Knowledge Organization Schemes. Registred by Alexander Sigel
Link to the Nordic DC Metadata Creator
Created: 1996-12-10
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