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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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