ASCE thesaurus

Submitted by Barbara Gilles on Wed, 2009-11-18 11:24

Covers all major aspects of civil engineering practice, technology, science, and theory.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Controlled vocabulary
Author or Editor: 
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Access Innovations
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
No
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Aerospace engineering; Civil engineering; Chemical engineering; Engineering mechanics; Environmental engineering; Materials engineering; Structural engineering

Purpose: 

For indexing and navigation of ASCE's online resources. The Civil Engineering Database contains over 100,000 bibliographic and abstract records of everything ASCE has published since 1970. The ASCE Online Research Library is a comprehensive tool for locating online content across all disciplines of civil engineering. 

Related vocabularies: 

ASCE Subject Headings

Overlap with related vocabularies: 

Incorporates many of the terms and concepts in the ASCE Subject Headings

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Hierarchy
Alphabetical list
Permuted, tab delimited
Permuted, comma delimited
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Number of terms: 
Approximately 10,500
Number of preferred terms: 
Approximately 7,800
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
Approximately 2,700
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
American Society of Civil Engineers
Provider URL: 

http://www.asce.org/

Comments

I really need a Controlled

Submitted by saga on Thu, 2012-02-02 05:01.

I really need a Controlled Vocabulary! I think it would be fantastic for someone that works in a field very specialized! I think is a credible source too, due to the fact that the authors are American Society of Civil Engineer.
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