Eurovoc

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“Eurovoc is a multilingual thesaurus covering the fields in which the European Communities are active … The European Parliament, the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, the national and regional parliaments in Europe, some national government departments and European organisations are currently using this controlled vocabulary.”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
“The European institutions, the national parliaments and the various users of Eurovoc have cooperated to produce this edition [Eurovoc 4.3].”
Vocabulary URL: 

http://europa.eu/eurovoc/sg/sga_doc/eurovoc_dif!SERVEUR/menu!prod!MENU?langue=EN

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

Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish. In addition, In addition to these versions, Eurovoc has been translated into Basque by the Provincial Government of Bizkaia, and into Albanian, Russian and Ukrainian by the Parliaments of those countries.

Major subjects covered: 

Politics; International relations; European Communities; Law; Economics; Trade; Finance; Social questions; Education and communications; Science; Business and competition; Employment and working conditions; Transport; Environment; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Agri-foodstuffs; Production, technology and research; Energy; Industry; Geography; International organisations

Purpose: 
 
“[Eurovoc] provides a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions and of their users.”

 

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Number of classes: 

21

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Publications Office of the European Union
Provider URL: 

http://publications.europa.eu/index_en.htm

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