CERL Thesaurus

Submitted by drupalAdmin on Wed, 2009-11-18 13:53

“The CERL Thesaurus File is a unique facility developed to address the particularly European issue that place name and personal names in Europe varied from country to country in the period of hand press printing (1450 - c. 1830). As such, it is an essential research tool for scholars and researchers of the period. … The CERL Thesaurus contains names of persons, corporate bodies, places and printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed during the hand-press era (1450 - ca. 1830).” Includes a virtual keyboard for entering nonstandard characters, and an annotation function.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
“The CERL Thesaurus is developed and maintained by the Data Conversion Group (Göttingen) at the request of CERL.”
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.cerl.org/web/en/resources/cerl_thesaurus/main

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

English; includes forms in Latin and other languages

Major subjects covered: 

“The CERL Thesaurus file contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names and corporate names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century - including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names.”

Purpose: 

“The file has been created as a reference tool for bibliographers and scholars of the history of the book. The CERL Thesaurus supports internal linking between imprint places and imprint names, so that the user can see which printers are recorded in the CERL Thesaurus as having worked in a specific printing place, thus giving valuable new insights into book production in Europe in the hand-press era.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Hierarchy
Alphabetical list
Description of overall structure: 

The CERL Thesaurus features linking to provenance information from personal name and corporate body name records. Where this provenance icon is visible in a record's display, information about books formerly owned by a person or institution can be retrieved. This may include digitized images of marks of ownership.

Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Equivalence (Language or dialect)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Consortium of European Research Libraries
Provider URL: 

www.cerl.org

Comments

How cool is that! I didn't

Submitted by saga on Thu, 2012-02-02 04:58.

How cool is that! I didn't even know what CERL Thesaurus File is! It's so cool to learn something new! I really like reading this article! It's cool!
Asigurare Obligatorie Sanatate
 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <div> <pre> <address> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options