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English Heritage Periods List

“English Heritage Periods List”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

RCHME periods list; Period (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Wed, 2013-07-17
Available formats: 
RCHME periods list; Period (EH)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
other
Description of overall structure: 

“Please note that these thesauri [at group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy.”

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/eh%@0period.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/eh%20period

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

EH Monument Type Thesaurus

Classification of monument type records by function

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Monument Type (EH); Monument Types

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
other
Description of overall structure: 

“Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy.”

Type of terms: 

Types of monuments relating to the built and buried heritage in England.

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

18

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/eh%20tmt2.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/eh&20tmt2

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

EH Maritime Craft Types Thesaurus

A thesaurus of craft types which survive as wrecks in English Heritage’s maritime record.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Maritime Craft Type (EH); Maritime Craft Type

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
other
Description of overall structure: 

“Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy.”

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

1

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/eh%20tmc.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/eh%20tmc

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus

“Originally developed by the Archaeological Objects Working Party and published by the mda [formerly the Museums Documentation Association]. It provides guidance for the recording of archaeological objects in Britain and Ireland covering all historical periods. Now maintained by FISH [the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage] on behalf of the heritage sector”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (FISH)
Current version date: 
Wed, 2013-07-17
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
other
Description of overall structure: 

“Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy.”

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/mda%20obj.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/mda%20obj

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

NMR Event Types Thesaurus

A development of the ALGAO [Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers UK] events wordlist. The thesaurus is an indexing tool to be used for recording archaeological and architectural investigative, data collection exercises; from intrusive interventions into the resource to non damaging survey events.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Event TYpe (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
National Monuments Record Centre
Current version date: 
Wed, 2013-07-17
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Archaeological fieldwork; Architectural fieldwork

Purpose: 

According to http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/01_introduction.pdf, page 6, “This thesaurus represents the Data Standards Unit’s response to numerous requests from individuals and organizations within the heritage sector for a standardized terminology that can be applied to archaeological and architectural fieldwork types and techniques and our response to a ‘terminology gap’ that was recently identified by the MIDAS Heritage, Historic Environment Record (HER) Compliance Profile. It is hoped that the thesaurus will be of use to anyone involved in the recording of events, be that at local or national level.”

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

“Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy.”

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

2

Number of terms: 
128
Number of preferred terms: 
83
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
37
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/agl%20et.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/agl%20et

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

EH Evidence Thesaurus

Terminology covering the existing physical remains of a monument, or the means by which a monument has been identified where no physical remains exist

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Evidence (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
other
Description of overall structure: 

“Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy.”

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
othr
Number of classes: 

1

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/eh%20evd.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/eh%20evd

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

EH Components Thesaurus

Terminology covering divisions and structural elements of a building or monument.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Components (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Elements of a monument relating to the built or buried heritage.

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

"Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy."

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

10

Terms and Conditions
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/eh%20com.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/eh%20com

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

EH Building Materials Thesaurus

Thesaurus of main constructional material types (e.g., the walls) for indexing of monuments.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Building Materials (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Wed, 2013-07-17
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English

Major subjects covered: 

Construction materials for monuments relating to the built and buried heritage.

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

"Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy."

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

9

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS (RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/eh%20tbm.html and http://purl.org.heritagedata/schemes/eh%20tbm

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

EH Archaeological Sciences Thesaurus

Used for recording the techniques, recovery methods and materials associated with the archaeological sciences.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Archaeological Sciences (EH)

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Wed, 2013-07-17
Available formats: 
SKOS (RDF); alphabetical (PDF); hierarchical (PDF)
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Archaeology

Minor subjects covered: 

Archaeological aspects; archaeological investigative techniques; archaeological material types; archaeological methods of recovery; archaeological modification states

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

"Please note that these thesauri [at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.html] group terms by class rather than the broadest noun term (Top Term). ... These thesauri do not have Top Terms as the classes are not part of the hierarchy."

Type of terms: 

Archaeological concepts

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

5

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
Available under the terms of the Creative Commons license, Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Import/download instructions : 

Download links for SKOS RDF), alphabetical (PDF), and hierarchical (PDF) files are at http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/. Download links for individual RDF files in N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, and XML syntaxes are available at http://heritagedata.org/test/schemes/560.html and http://purl.org/heritagedata/schemes/560

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
English Heritage (officially known as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England)
Provider contact details: 

English Heritage contact: Philip Carlisle, dsu.info@english-heritage.org.uk. Comments and candidate term suggestions can be made at http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/comments.htm. Required information for candidate term suggestions includes "Source of term" and "Scope Note"; there is also an optional field for published references.

AGU Index Terms

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Current version/edition : 
2013
Current version date: 
Tue, 2013-01-01
Available formats: 
HTML, plain text, RDF/OWL/SKOS
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

Index terms are a key part of AGU’s strategy for electronic distribution of journal articles.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
html
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
rt_do
Number of classes: 

49

Number of terms: 
1300
Number of preferred terms: 
1300
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
n/a
Depth of Hierarchy: 
2
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
American Geophysical Union
Provider URL: 

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