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EH Monument Type Thesaurus

Classification of monument type records by function

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Monument Type (EH); Monument Types

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
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.htm] 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: 

Types of monuments relating to the built and buried heritage in England.

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

18

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/eh%20tmt2.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/eh&20tmt2

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