Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus / Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada

Submitted by drupalAdmin on Wed, 2009-11-18 23:42

“The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology which represents all the fields treated in information resources of the Government of Canada. All fields of knowledge are represented in the thesaurus, to varying degrees.”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
“The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is managed and updated by Library and Archives Canada.”
Current version date: 
Thu, 2009-10-01
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.thesaurus.gc.ca/

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

English and French. “The English and French versions of the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus were developed and are maintained simultaneously. Their status is identical, that is to say that neither language is to be considered the dominant or source language. The relational structures of the English and French versions, however, may differ in some cases to better reflect the terminology and concepts peculiar to each language.”

Major subjects covered: 

"All fields of knowledge are represented in the thesaurus, to varying degrees. Because of the great variety of subjects covered by the thesaurus, its terminology is rather general. By design, it does not include specialized terminology used in specific and limited disciplines."

Purpose: 

“The tool is primarily intended for content managers, librarians, indexers and metadata developers in federal departments and agencies who must select controlled subject terms to index Government of Canada Web resources. In the Treasury Board Information Management Standard (TBITS) 39.2, the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is identified as the default controlled vocabulary for that purpose. Using the CST will help to reduce the duplication of effort in creating a variety of controlled vocabularies in the Government of Canada, as well as increase the interoperability of government web sites.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Hierarchy
Alphabetical list
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Equivalence (Inter-language; may be between separate lists)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Number of terms: 
4448 English, 4563 French
Number of preferred terms: 
2143 (both languages)
Terms and Conditions
Import/download instructions : 

http://www.thesaurus.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=EAEAD1E6-1

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Library and Archives Canada
Provider URL: 

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

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