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EH Archaeological Sciences Thesaurus

Tue, 2013-07-23 16:56 — Anonymous (not verified)

Used for recording the techniques, recovery methods and materials associated with the archaeological sciences.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Archaeological Sciences (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Wed, 2013-07-17
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Vocabulary URL: 

http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/thesaurus.asp?thes_no=560&thes_...

Vocabulary Sample URL: 

MINERALOGY: http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/560/concepts/142169.html; PEAT HUMIDIFICATION: http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/560/concepts/147278.html; DENDROCHRONOLOGY: http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/560/concepts/142131.html;

Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Archaeology

Minor subjects covered: 

Archaeological aspects; archaeological investigative techniques; archaeological material types; archaeological methods of recovery; archaeological modification states

Related vocabularies: 

This vocabulary is one of several cultural heritage vocabularies that are available as Linked Open Data as an outcome of the SENESCHAL project, described at http://www.heritagedata.org.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
other
Description of overall structure: 

"Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.html] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy."

Type of terms: 

Archaeological concepts

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

5

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/560.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/560

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider URL: 

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/

Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

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