ETB Thesaurus

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The ETB Thesaurus was created as part of European Schoolnet’s European Treasury Browser (ETB) project. “The aim of the ETB project is to build a Web educational resource Metadata Networking infrastructure for schools in Europe, to link together existing national repositories, encourage new publication, and provide a reliable level of quality and structure. Furthermore, the project aims to add value to these systems by an interoperable layer to help teachers and students locate resources Europe-wide through a Schoolnet Information Space with rules to facilitate location of relevant resources.“

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
INDIRE (Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione per l’Innovazione e la Ricerca Educativa) (ex BDP), Firenze, IT, coordinator (resp.: Marisa Trigari); HUB (Humboldt-Universität) Dept. of Computers in Education), Berlin, DE; IZ (InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften), Bonn, DE (resp.: Michael Kluck); UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Madrid, ES (resp: Felisa Verdejo); collaborators for implementing the ETB thesaurus version in their language: UNI-C (Denmark), NetLab (Sweden), and the Lambrakis Research Foundation (Greece)
Current version date: 
Fri, 2002-03-01
Vocabulary URL: 

http://etb.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/etb/sub_area.cfm?sa=440&row=1

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

Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, and Greek. “All the languages have equal status in the ETB thesaurus: each descriptor in one language matches one descriptor in all other languages.”

Major subjects covered: 

individual development; learning/research; school activities; leisure activities; teaching/training/evaluation/guidance; educational system; content of education (including 9 curricular/extracurricular sub-groups); facilities/equipment/materials; communication/information/document; culture; political/social/interpersonal relations; health/safety/handicap; environment; society; international organizations; countries and geopolitical areas; languages

Purpose: 

“The ETB Thesaurus .. has been conceived within the ETB project as a documentary tool aimed to facilitate indexing and searching processes in two contexts: a metadata infrastructure for information exchange, connecting European educational repositories that have their own indexing systems and documentary languages; [and] native repositories characterised by an European dimension from the very beginning.”

Vocabulary characteristics
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)
Other (explain in the Comments field)
Characteristics Comments: 

Micro thesaurus classification

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
European Schoolnet (“a unique network of 31 Ministries of Education”)
Provider URL: 

http://www.europeanschoolnet.org

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