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.

General information
Building a thesaurus
Australian and New Zealand thesaurus
Lists of thesaurus

see also

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
Tips and hints: stuck for a term when indexing a book? Use a thesaurus!, by Mary Russell, ANZSI Newsletter, 2008;4(9):7. [PDF 95KB]
NSW Branch taxonomy seminar, by Yvonne Bowyer, ANZSI Newsletter, 2006;2(3):6. [PDF 121KB]
From the President, by Lynn Farkas, ANZSI Newsletter, 2006;2(1)1, 3. [PDF 111KB]
NISO and the standards for controlled vocabularies and thesauri, AusSI Newsletter, 2003;27(4):43. [PDF 1153KB]
Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group (ASI)
Folksonomies, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 2007.
Tagging: emerging trends, by Gene Smith, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008;34(6):14–17.
Changes in The Health and Ageing Thesaurus and reindexing HealthInsite, by Prue Deacon, ANZSI Newsletter, 2005;1(2):6–7. [PDF 118KB]
Finding the right words - looking at the use of controlled vocabularies 17 March 2009, by Pru Mitchell and Sarah Hayman, powerpoint presentation to ALIA Community Information Australia Networkers.

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.
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.

Thesaurus

General information

Building a thesaurus

Australian and New Zealand thesaurus

Lists of thesaurus