CSA/NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus

Submitted by drupalAdmin on Wed, 2009-11-18 14:09

“The Biocomplexity Thesaurus serves as the controlled vocabulary for the NBII, facilitating improved access and retrieval of data and information relevant to users' queries. The NBII is also working closely with our partners in the European Environment Agency (EEA) on a prototype to provide multi-lingual searching capabilities to both NBII, EEA, and other global resources through semantic interoperability between the Biocomplexity Thesaurus and the Generalized Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (GeMET).”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

BCT

Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Vocabulary URL: 

http://tred.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=578&&PageID=1657&mo...

Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
No
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English. However, a simultaneous search can be performed on the NBII and multilingual EIONET (see GEMET Thesaurus) repositories at http://nbii-thesaurus.ornl.gov/thesaurus/skosThesaurusSearch2.jsp

Major subjects covered: 

Biology, ecology, environmental sciences, and sustainability

Purpose: 

“It will be the required thesaurus for all keyword and subject metadata created by NBII nodes. The thesaurus will be used for the cataloguing of Web resources, the creation of HTML metadata for Web pages and the creation of new Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)-compliant metadata records for the NBII Metadata Clearinghouse. Accordingly, researchers, scientists, librarians and the general public will be able to use the thesaurus as an aid in creating strategies for searching NBII databases.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Hierarchy
Alphabetical list
Web linked terms
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Freely available. Available via a web service (SOAP).
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program, managed by the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Informatics Office.
Provider URL: 

http://tred.nbii.gov/portal/community/Communities/NBII_Home/

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