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Gale Health and Medicine Thesaurus

The Gale Health and Medicine Thesaurus is a large thesaurus in the domains of alternative medicine, anatomy, diseases, drugs, food, cooking and nutrition, medical equipment, technologies and procedures, medical personnel, occupations and services, and pathogens. Each of these categories is also available for license as an individual thesaurus.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
Gale, A Cengage Company
Update frequency: 
Continuous
Available formats: 
CSV, Excel
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English

Major subjects covered: 

Alternative medicine, anatomy, diseases, drugs, food, cooking and nutrition, medical equipment, technologies and procedures, medical personnel, occupations and services, and pathogens

Purpose: 

To index published articles, reference content, and multimedia.

Used By: 

Gale, A Cengage Company

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of terms: 
29,342
Number of preferred terms: 
12,475
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
16,867
Depth of Hierarchy: 
11
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Paid non-exclusive license
Availability Comments: 

Subsets of the thesaurus are also available for license for the individual fields of alternative medicine, anatomy, diseases, drugs, food, cooking and nutrition, medical equipment, technologies and procedures, medical personnel, occupations and services, and pathogens.

Purchase/Subscription Price: 
Contact for price.
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Gale, A Cengage Company
Provider contact details: 

27500 Drake Rd., Farmington Hills, MI, 48331, United States
https://www.gale.com/license/partners/contact-licensing-partners

Gale Business Thesaurus

The Gale Business thesaurus is a large, general business thesaurus in the domains of accounting, advertising, agriculture, banking, commerce, currency and coinage, finance, human resources, industries, insurance, investments, management, marketing, labor, products and services, public relations, real estate, and taxation. Each of these categories is also available for license as an individual thesaurus.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
Gale, A Cengage Company
Update frequency: 
Continuous
Available formats: 
CSV, Excel
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English

Major subjects covered: 

Accounting, advertising, banking, commerce, finance, human resources, industries, insurance, investments, management, marketing, labor, products and services

Minor subjects covered: 

Agriculture, currency and coinage, public relations, real estate, and taxation

Purpose: 

To index published articles, reference content, and multimedia

Used By: 

Gale, A Cengage company

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of terms: 
14,722
Number of preferred terms: 
6,932
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
7,790
Depth of Hierarchy: 
10
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Paid non-exclusive license
Availability Comments: 

Subsets of the thesaurus are also available for license for the individual fields of advertising, agriculture, banking, commerce, currency and coinage, finance, human resources, industries, insurance, investments, management, marketing, labor, products and services, public relations, real estate, and taxation.

Purchase/Subscription Price: 
Contact for price.
Import/download instructions : 

Will be provided.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Gale, A Cengage Company
Provider contact details: 

27500 Drake Rd., Farmington Hills, MI, 48331, United States
https://www.gale.com/license/partners/contact-licensing-partners

Knowledge Management Types / Categories for Enterprises

The Taxonomy of Enterprise Knowledge Management Types / Categories is a linear taxonomy that, both, acts a a controlled vocabulary and that helps professionals identify and organize the types of Knowledge Categories that are important to many enterprises, align knowledge traits, skills, and solutions, with those areas, and ultimately measure those areas with the intent to build roadmaps for transition to improvement.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 
Vocabulary type: 
contrvoc
Author or Editor: 
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
Current version/edition : 
Updated Regularly
Update frequency: 
Regularly. View IF4IT Site for latest versions.
Available formats: 
HTML
Vocabulary Sample URL: 
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English

Major subjects covered: 

Areas of Knowledge that are important to most enterprises, companies, or organizations such as Businesses, Educational Institutions, and Government Agencies.

Minor subjects covered: 

Areas of Knowledge, as they pertain to professional discipline areas.

Used By: 

Knowledge Management Professionals, Business Managers & Leaders, Information Technology (IT) Professionals, Researchers, etc.

Overlap with related vocabularies: 

Refer to IF4IT master inventory of Taxonomies

Mappings to other vocabularies: 

Refer to IF4IT master inventory of Taxonomies

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
html
other
Description of overall structure: 

A linear list (hierarchy of two level depth) that has linkages to definitions, root terms, professional discipline areas, and broader glossaries.

Type of terms: 

Refer to IF4IT master inventory of Taxonomies

Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
hier_inst
nier_part
rel_t
rt_op
rt_do
ont
Number of classes: 

Constantly growing.

Number of terms: 
Constantly growing.
Number of preferred terms: 
Constantly growing.
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
N/A
Depth of Hierarchy: 
Constantly growing.
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Open as per the Master Agreement on the IF4IT web site: http://www.if4it.com/LICENSES/master_agreement.html
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
Provider URL: 
Provider contact details: 

Refer to the IF4IT Contact Web Page at: http://www.if4it.com/contactUs.html

Moving Image Genre-Form Guide

While developing terminology for application to the moving image holdings of archives and libraries, the Moving Image Genre-Form Guide follows the traditional methods of film and television scholarship as closely as possible. The vast and steadily growing literature of genre studies has been relied upon: hundreds of books and many more articles authored on genre theory, as well as analyzing specific genres.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
contrvoc
Current version date: 
Sun, 1998-02-01
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Library of Congress Motion Picture & Television Reading Room

Mass Communication Thesaurus

The thesaurus contains a documentation language devised for the purpose of analysing works, articles, reports and other documents relating to the problems of mass communication according to the particular medium to which they refer: books, the press, records, films, radio or television. While its main purpose is to characterize the information in a sufficiently precise manner to allow post-storage retrieval of the documents containing it, it has the secondary purpose of enabling queries to be expressed in a form which will match the information available.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version/edition : 
1982
Available formats: 
PDF
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

[The thesaurus] aims at making both queries and answers explicit, so that it will be possible to check, from internal evidence, that they actually correspond. It will thus enable a specialized information service to fulfil its mission of meeting the needs of its users. In addition, by providing a valid basis for the exchange of data between documentation systems, it will allow national or international networks to toperate in a fully satisfactory consistent manner.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Relationship types: 
eq_syn_ri
eq_lang
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Provider URL: 
Provider contact details: 

Thesaurus of Musical Instruments

"Containing 1480 entries from Accordeon to Žvegljica"

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Tue, 2003-02-11
Available formats: 
Searchable online
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Characteristics Comments: 

All terms and hierarchical relationships come from the Library of Congress Subject Headings, 24th edition (2001).  

Zine Thesaurus of Subject Terms

All of the subject terms in the catalogue have been organized by common themes and groups in a Zine Thesaurus. The Zine Thesaurus is a good place to look up subject terms because you can see all similar and related terms together and get ideas for words to use when searching or cataloguing. Browsing the thesaurus willl give you an idea of the many subjects covered by zines at the Anchor Archive Zine Library.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

Feel free to use and modify the thesaurus for your own uses. If you make any major additions we'd love to hear about them.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Roberts Street Social Centre
Provider contact details: 

Regesta Imperii Thesaurus

The systematic thesaurus of the OPAC is a hierachical collection of all descriptors which are used to categorize entries of the database concerning topics, time and geography.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
Searchable/browsable online
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Regesta Imperii
Provider contact details: 

Regesta Imperii
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2 - 55131 Mainz
Rheinland-Pfalz
Germany
Tel. 06131 - 577 210
Fax. 06131 - 577 214

American Museum of Natural History Anthropology Thesaurus

In an effort to further improve on-line access, a thesaurus has been developed that provides a controlled vocabulary for use in searching across the Anthropology Division's collections. The goal of this thesaurus is to allow users to browse through a hierarchical structure to locate individual objects and to see broader, narrower, and related terms rather than having to perform a tradition search on individual terms.
 

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
Searchable/browsable online
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Anthropology

Purpose: 

"In an effort to further improve online access, a thesaurus has been developed that provides a controlled vocabulary for use in searching across the Anthropology Division's collections. The goal of this thesaurus is to allow users to browse through a hierarchical structure to locate individual objects rather than having to perform a tradition search on individual keywords."

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
Description of overall structure: 

Currently, seven "top level" and the vast majority of the "mid level" categories come directly from the AAT while all of the "bottom level" terms (keywords) and a few of the "mid level" categories are derived from AMNH object names.

Number of classes: 

7

Number of terms: 
10,000
Characteristics Comments: 

"This thesaurus is based upon the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) produced by The Getty Research Institute and follows as closely as possible its theoretical model for the organization of concepts (categories). Where the AAT differs in its description of an object or concept found in the AMNH collection, the AMNH term (keyword) is inserted into the appropriate position in the existing AAT hierarchy. It was designed to demonstrate the capabilities of a thesaurus in searching across the AMNH anthropological collections and to generate feedback from researchers and the public."

Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

Any commercial reproduction, redistribution, publication, or other use by electronic means or otherwise is prohibited unless pursuant to a written license signed by the Museum.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Division of Anthropology
Provider URL: 
Provider contact details: 

For information regarding the Thesaurus please contact:
grigri@amnh.org

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Subject Thesaurus

The AST covers specific subject areas identified during a review of manuals, policies, publications and other information resources from various departmental organizations. As a result of this review, terms were extracted to be used for subject classification in various AANDC information systems such as AANDC's Internet and Intranet sites.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
Searchable online
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

The main function is to standardize the form and meaning of subject terms, which will ensure that a particular concept or subject will always be represented in the same way in AANDC metadata resources.

Used By: 

The AST is primarily intended for content managers, librarians, indexers and metadata specialists at AANDC who must select controlled subject terms to index AANDC information resources for metadata requirements.

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Characteristics Comments: 

The AST is a bilingual thesaurus of subject terms describing the work of AANDC. It includes more than 2800 terms in English and more that 2900 terms in French, including almost 1300 preferred terms in each language. The AST conforms to internationally accepted standards and conventions for thesaurus construction (i.e. Guidelines for the construction, format and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies (ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005), Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri (ISO 2788-1986) and the Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri (ISO 5964-1985)).

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Provider contact details: 

If you have comments, suggestions for additions or modifications, or would like to discuss the contents of the AANDC Subject Thesaurus, please send an email to:
Rachel.Clarke@aandc-aadnc.gc.ca

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