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Sailspotting: A Thesaurus of the Sails of Tall Ships

 
“Our "reality" is the Tall Ships Sailing Club, a recreational entity composed of sailing enthusiasts and amateur nautical historians. The Club has a library of about 500 books, most of which are nonfiction materials relating to practical sailing. Scattered throughout the collection are works of naval history, art books containing photographs and paintings of ships, compendia of nautical terminology and so on. Although the collection grows over time, the library has a small budget and adds only a dozen books a year. This slow rate of growth has a direct impact on our thesaurus. As designed, the thesaurus is expected to remain current for a long time; furthermore, the names of most sails have been fixed for centuries and new terminology is added at a glacial pace.” 
 

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Sailspotting

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version/edition : 
April 2005
Available formats: 
web page
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English

Purpose: 

“Please note that this website was created for a class project and is not intended for any other use.” “As the Club's name indicates, the organization emphasizes tall ships over sailboats. Sailspotting is designed to help club members find information on the sails of tall ships -- their names and synonyms, their uses, and their relationships to one another. It is intended as an adjunct to the library's catalog."

Used By: 

 the library of the
Tall Ships Sailing Club

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Type of terms: 

the standard, accepted terms used to describe the sails of tall ships

Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of classes: 

13 top terms

Number of terms: 
113
Number of preferred terms: 
100
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
13
Depth of Hierarchy: 
3 levels
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
disp
Availability Comments: 

Presented on this website by kind permission of
the authors 

Licensing Options: 

 n/a

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The University of British Columbia – School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Provider URL: