Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies

Terminology Used in the Federal Government of Canada

Classifications

• Dewey Decimal Classification
• Library of Congress Classification
• National Library of Medicine Classification, 5th edition, revised 1999
• Standard Classifications in Use at Statistics Canada

Controlled Vocabularies

• American Fisheries Society. Committee on Names of Fishes. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada / C. Richard Robins, chairman ... [et al Committee on Names of Fishes), 5th ed. Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 1991.
• Canadian Information By Subject
• Canadian Subject Headings
• Government of Canada Programs and Services A-Z Index
• Library of Congress Classification Outline
• Library of Congress Subject Headings, 24th edition (2001)
• POLEX + ® Royal Canadian Mounted Police English-French Police Terminological Glossary
• Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM) (French only)
• Translation Bureau. Publications by Subject. Vocabularies and terminology bulletins

Geographic Names

• Canadian Geographical Names

Subject Clusters

• Canada Site. Services for Canadians
• Canada Site. Services for Canadian Business
• Canada Site. Services for Non-Canadians

Taxonomies

• CISTI Virtual Library - Recommended Resources
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System - ITIS*ca - Canadian version of ITIS
• Statistics Canada. Site Browse by Subject

Thesauri

• Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Thesaurus. ASFIS Reference Series, No. 6, Revision 1, 1986. Compiled by: E. Fagetti, D.W. Privett, & J.R.L. Sears
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Getty Research Institute
• Canadian Education Thesaurus/Thésaurus canadien de l'éduation. 1st ed. Toronto, Ont. : Micromedia Ltd. 1991.
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Thesaurus
• Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science and Technology
• Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
• OECD Macrothesaurus - HTML Version
• Statistics Canada Thesaurus

Other Canadian Terminology

Canadian Thesauri

• Canadian Literacy Thesaurus
• catie: Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange. Keywords out of context (KWOC)

Additional Resources on Thesauri & Controlled Vocabularies

Bibliography

• HILT Bibliography

Compendia of Thesauri

• American Society of Indexers. Thesauri Online
• BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources: Thesauri
• Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classifications systems available in the WWW.DC Subject. Compiled by Traugott Koch
• Queensland University of Technology. Controlled Vocabularies
• Web Thesaurus Compendium
• wordHoard
• The XML Cover Pages: resource description and classification

Construction & Management Tools

• Questans Limited
• Term Tree 2000
• Thesaurus-building tools and software
• Thesaurus Management Software, compiled by the American Society of Indexers

Learning Tools

• Aitchison, J., A. Gilchrist, & D. Bawden. (2000). Thesaurus construction and use: a practical manual (4th ed.). Chicago, IL, USA: Fitzroy Dearborn
• Craven, Tim. Thesaurus Construction: Introductory Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction
• Hudon, Michèle. Le thésaurus : conception, élaboration, gestion / par Michèle Hudon. Montréal: Éditions ASTED, 1995.
• Larson, Ray R. Thesaurus Design and Development. Presentation
• Thesauri for the electronic age. Workshop. TFPL Ltd.

Research and Projects

• Developing a functions thesaurus: Guidelines for Commonwealth agencies
• Full-text papers about thesauri available on the web. Compiled by Ali Asghar Shiri
• HILT - High-Level Thesaurus project

  Costs of vocabulary mapping. Presentation by Leonard Will

  HILT Project Overview

  Mapping terminologies: problems. Presentation by Alan Gilchrist

  Outcomes of HILT consultations: draft interim report

  Renardus DDC classification mapping: a summary of work in progress by Michael Day

  What is the Semantic Web? Presentation by John MacColl

• LITA. Top Technical Trends, June 2001 ALA Annual. Technology and library users, an ongoing discussion. The Semantic Web
• Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS)
• Semantic Web Agreement Group (SWAG)
• Semantic Web Development: Technical Proposal. February 4, 2000
• Shiri, Ali Asghar and Revie, Crawford. "Thesauri on the Web: current developments and trends." Online Information Review. Volume 24, Number 4, pp. 273-279.
• Strange Connections: Information Architect's Manifesto
• Thesaurus principles and practice
• Visual Thesaurus
• Wordmap

Standards

• Guidelines for the Construction, Format and Management of Monolingual Thesauri. ANSI/NISO Z39.19-1993(R1998). National Information Standards Organization. August 1993.
• Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri. (ISO 2788: 1986).
• Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri. (ISO 5964:1985).
• Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices. NISO TR-02-1997. James D. Anderson. National Information Standards Organization. January 1997.
• TBITS 39: Treasury Board Information Management Standard, Part 2: Controlled Vocabulary Standard
• Workshop on Electronic Thesauri: Planning for a Standard. Report by Jessica Milstead

Taxonomies

• Access to Electronic Documents: Taxonomies in Information and Knowledge Management. Presentation by Sue Batley. EUSIDIC Spring Meeting. March 22-23 2001. Lille, France
• Corporate Taxonomies: Different Approaches to their Construction and Use. Presentation by Alan Gilchrist. EUSIDIC Spring Meeting. March 22-23 2001. Lille, France
• Developing an intranet taxonomy. Workshop by Alan Gilchrist, TFPL Ltd.
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System - ITIS * North America
• Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Systems (draft)
• The taxonomy opportunity: survival of the fittest? Presentation by Stella Dextre Clarke. EUSIDIC Spring Meeting, 23rd March 2001