GEMET Thesaurus (General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus)

Submitted by drupalAdmin on Wed, 2009-11-18 23:30

“the reference vocabulary of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its Network (Eionet). “

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
“The work has been carried out through a contract between the EEA [European Environment Agency] and the ETC/CDS[European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources] which is led by the Ministry of the Environment of Lower Saxony, includes members of Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden and benefits of the collaboration of other member countries of the European Union (EU), as well as of UNEP[United Nations Environment Programme] Infoterra.”
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet

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

Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English [British], English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish

Major subjects covered: 

administration; agriculture; air; animal husbandry; biology; building; chemistry; climate; disasters, accidents, risk; economics; energy; environmental policy; fishery; food, drinking water; forestry; geography; human health; industry; information; legislation; materials; military aspects; natural areas, landscape, ecosystems; natural dynamics; noise, vibrations; physics; pollution; radiations; research; resources; social aspects, population; soil; space; tourism; trade, services; transport; urban environment, urban stress; waste; water

Purpose: 

“GEMET, the GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, has been developed as an indexing, retrieval and control tool for the European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources (ETC/CDS) and the European Environment Agency (EEA), Copenhagen.”

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)
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Europa – The European Union On-Line
Provider URL: 

http://europa.eu/

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