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Subject Analysis - Indexing Languages

Includes intellectually developed classification schemes, thesauri, subject headings lists, and the like. Some of the sites listed on the community page maintain directories to online vocabularies.

About thesauri

Construction of Controlled Vocabularies
A primer by Marcia Zeng.
Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web
A W3C working draft.

Selected schemes

AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus)
ALCTS, Cataloging and Classification Section, Subject Analysis Committee, Final Report
From 1997. Includes extensive appendices on types of relationships displayed in thesauri and subject headings lists.
Broad System of Ordering
Bliss Classification Association
Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects
You have to see this.
Dewey Services
The home page for the Dewey Decimal Classification. Dewey is available online if you have access to OCLC Connexion.
Government of Canada. Core Subject Thesaurus
HASSET
Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus.
Heritage Illustrated Thesaurus (HITITE)
A prototype of a visual thesaurus.
Iconclass
International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology
Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification
LCSH authority files are available online in Library of Congress Authorities and in OCLC Connexion, and the subject headings and the classification scheme are both in Classification Web (a Simmons e-resource).
LOV: Learning Object Vocabulary
MeSH Browser
Moving Image Genre-Form Guide
NASA Thesaurus (MAI Lookup)
ProQuest Controlled Vocabulary
NLM Classification
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
I: Subject Terms and II: Genre and Physical Characteristics
Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors
Available under the "thesaurus" tab.
Unesco Thesaurus
Unified Medical Language System
Universal Decimal Classification
Home page of the UDC Consortium. The classification is also available as a Simmons e-resource.

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