Thesaurus
A thesaurus identifies relevant terminology for a subject area or topic, creates a structure for the vocabulary, provides a hierarchical display of Broader and Narrower terms within the subject field, indicate relationships between terms, and maps non-preferred synonyms to the preferred thesaurus term.
see also
- Thesaurus standards
- Thesaurus related mailing lists
- Thesaurus management software
- ANZSI Courses and Workshops
General information
- Glossary of terms relating to thesauri and other forms of structured vocabulary for information retrieval, by Willpower Information
- Controlled vocabularies bibliography, by Michael Middleton
- Thesaurus principles and practice, by Willpower Information
- NSW Branch taxonomy seminar, by Yvonne Bowyer, ANZSI Newsletter, 2006;2(3):6.
- From the President, by Lynn Farkas, ANZSI Newsletter, 2006;2(1)1, 3.
- NISO and the standards for controlled vocabularies and thesauri, AusSI Newsletter, 2003, 27(4):43.
- Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group (ASI)
- Folksonomies, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 2007.
- Changes in The Health and Ageing Thesaurus and reindexing HealthInsite, by Prue Deacon, ANZSI Newsletter, 2005;1(2):6–7.
Building a thesaurus
- Thesaurus building & use: guidance, by Michael Middleton
- Publications on thesaurus construction and use – including some references to facet analysis, taxonomies, ontologies, topic maps and related issues, by Willpower Information
- Comparative evaluation of thesaurus creation software, by Heather Hedden, The Indexer, 2008;26(2):50–59.
- A study on the feasibility of subject authority control of web-based Persian medical databases: an Iranian experience, by Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi, in: Mary Russell (ed), The Indexing life: proceedings from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers conference, 15–17 March 2007, Melbourne. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers, 2007, pp. 88–99.
- Thesaurus construction in an interdisciplinary soft science: producing a thesaurus for the Department of Environmental Protection, Perth, Western Australia, by Kathy Little and Maggie Exon, in: Max McMaster (ed) Indexers – partners in publishing. Proceedings from the first international conference, 31 March – 2 April, 1995, Marysville, Victoria, Melbourne: Australian Society of Indexers, 1995, pp. 162–169.
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Development of a thesaurus for the SAGE – (Science and Geography Education) database, by Sherrey Quinn, in: Max McMaster (ed) Indexers – partners in publishing. Proceedings from the first international conference, 31 March – 2 April, 1995, Marysville, Victoria, Melbourne: Australian Society of Indexers, 1995, pp. 154–161.
Australian and New Zealand thesaurus
- APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) thesaurus
- Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT)
- Australian Occupational Health and Safety Thesaurus
- Australian Pictorial Thesaurus
- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors (ATED)
- Australian Transport Index Thesaurus
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) subject, language and place thesauri
- Family Thesaurus
- Functions of New Zealand Thesaurus (FONZ)
- Health and Ageing Thesaurus
- Index New Zealand Thesaurus
- Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)
- Subjects of New Zealand Thesaurus (SONZ)
- TAGS – Thesaurus of Australian Government Subjects
- Victorian Local History Thesaurus
Lists of thesaurus
- Classification schemes, by Michael Middleton
- Databases of thesauri, by Michael Middleton
- Other website compilations, by Michael Middleton
- Thesaurus sites, by Michael Middleton
- Word finders, by Michael Middleton
