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Schools Online Thesaurus

Wed, 2010-03-03 11:41 — Anonymous (not verified)

"The Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) provides a controlled vocabulary of terms used in Australian and New Zealand schools. It encompasses all subject areas as well as terms describing educational and administrative processes."

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ScOT

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version/edition : 
Version 6.4
Current version date: 
Fri, 2009-07-17
Available formats: 
Data available in SKOS RDF and VDEX xml.
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

ScOT is "an ideal vocabulary to integrate into 'search' mechanisms of learning management systems." "
"Using ScOT terms in school catalogues or web metadata allows more comprehensive description of:

  • online electronic resources, such as learning objects, film clips and images
  • printed materials found in online catalogues
  • research, policy and administrative documents relevant to school education.
Used By: 

The Learning Federation; Schools Catalogue Information Service; edna

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Terms and Conditions
Licensing Options: 

A "non-exclusive, perpetual Licence to Use the Database for the Purpose only in Australia on the Site in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement."

Purchase/Subscription Price: 
N/A
Import/download instructions : 

See http://scot.curriculum.edu.au/download.asp

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Curriculum Corporation
Provider URL: 

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/ccsite/

Earley & Assoc. Webinars

Sun, 2010-01-03 13:02 — mary_garcia

January 6, 2010: Taxonomy for Personalization
Stephanie Lemieux, Mike Doane
Monthly conference calls open to any practitioner interested in gaining insight into taxonomy development, content management, search, and more.  1st Wednesday of each month, 1 pm ET
 

Event date: 
Wed, 2010-01-06
Event location: 

online

Reservation required: 
0
Event URL: 

http://www.earley.com/webinars

Event fee: 
$50

Illinois GILS Topic Tree

Thu, 2009-11-19 09:12 — drupalAdmin

Government Information Locator Service subject terms.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

Web site navigation

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

23 top terms

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
State of Illinois
Provider contact details: 

Anne Craig acraig@ilsos.net 217-785-5607

AGROVOC Thesaurus

Thu, 2009-11-19 08:42 — drupalAdmin

AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment).
The AGROVOC Thesaurus was developed by FAO and the Commission of the European Communities in the early 1980s. Since then it has been updated continuously by FAO and local institutions in member countries.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Tue, 2015-03-24
Available formats: 
Agrovoc is currently deployed into two main distributions, both in RDF: 1) Agrovoc Core - Includes Agrovoc in all languages, with no links to external vocabularies. It is an RDF dataset, available in RDF/XML and NT formats; 2) Agrovoc LOD - Includes Agrov
Vocabulary URL: 

http://aims.fao.org/vest-registry/vocabularies/agrovoc-multilingual-agri...

Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Related vocabularies: 

FAO Biotechnology Glossary; EUROVOC; GEMET; Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH); NAL Thesaurus; RAMEAU (Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopedique et alphabetique unifie); STW - Thesaurus for Economics; TheSoz - Thesaurus for the Social Sciences

Mappings to other vocabularies: 

Currently, AGROVOC is an SKOS-XL concept scheme and a Linked Open Data (LOD) set aligned with 13 other multilingual knowledge organization systems related to agriculture.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
html
diag
perm
other
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Characteristics Comments: 

"AGROVOC Linked Open Data (LOD) is a project to turn the AGROVOC thesaurus into a multilingual, terminological backbone for agricultural digital goods. Hosted by research partner MIMOS it provides web-accessible, structured data records on agricultural concepts and even more importantly, links those concepts to other online thesauri."

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
AGROVOC may be accessed and used free of charge. It is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Copyright for content in FAO languages - English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese - is with FAO, while content in othe
Import/download instructions : 

See https://aims-fao.atlassian.net/wiki/display/AGV/Releases

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
FAO
Provider URL: 

http://www.fao.org/

Provider contact details: 

"National organizations and institutes are welcome to help enrich and maintain AGROVOC's many languages by joining our growing community. Please contact us at http://aims.fao.org/contact "

Provider section comments: 

"The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people."

Wikispecies

Thu, 2009-11-19 08:26 — drupalAdmin

"Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. So far we have 194,202 taxonomic entries."

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based species directory and central database of taxonomy. It is aimed at the needs of scientific users rather than general users.”

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

6

Number of terms: 
204,046
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Wikimedia Foundation
Provider URL: 

http://wikimediafoundation.org

UNTERM (United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database)

Thu, 2009-11-19 08:18 — drupalAdmin

“UNTERM is a multilingual terminology database which provides United Nations nomenclature, technical or specialized terms and common phrases in all six official UN languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic.”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
contrvoc
Update frequency: 
Continual
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“The database is mainly intended for use by the language staff of the United Nations to ensure accurate and consistent usage in documents published by the Organization.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
html
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
eq_lang
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
United Nations
Provider URL: 

http://www.un.org

UNESCO Thesaurus / Thésaurus de l'UNESCO /Tesauro de la UNESCO

Thu, 2009-11-19 08:14 — drupalAdmin

“The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled and structured list of terms used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication and information. Continuously enriched and updated, its multidisciplinary terminology reflects the evolution of the Organization's programmes and activities.”

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

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
perm
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of terms: 
7,000 English and Russion, 8,600 French and Spanish
Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

available on CD:  http://publishing.unesco.org/details.aspx?&Code_Livre=4596&change=E

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
United Nations
Provider URL: 

http://www.unesco.org

UNBIS Thesaurus

Thu, 2009-11-19 08:08 — drupalAdmin

“This online database represents the fourth edition of the UNBIS Thesaurus and the first in all the official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. The multilingual UNBIS Thesaurus, created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations Department of Public Information, contains the terminology used in subject analysis of documents and other materials relevant to United Nations programmes and activities.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
html
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
eq_lang
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of terms: 
7000
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
United Nations
Provider URL: 

http://www.un.org

UK Archival Thesaurus

Thu, 2009-11-19 08:03 — drupalAdmin

“UKAT is a subject thesaurus which has been created for the archive sector in the United Kingdom. It is a controlled vocabulary which archives can use when indexing their collections and catalogues.” “The backbone of UKAT is the UNESCO Thesaurus (UNESCO), a high-level thesaurus with terminology covering education, science, culture, the social and human sciences, information and communication, politics, law and economics. … However, while UNESCO covers a broad range of subject areas, it often lacks the depth of detailed terminology required by archives for indexing.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

UKAT

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Available formats: 
SKOS, Calm
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“The key aims of UKAT are: to improve access to archives by subject; to ensure that users of archives can carry out effective subject searches of the national archives network; and to promote the involvement in archives by groups which are under-represented among archive users, by providing subject terms which reflect their histories and experiences.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
html
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of classes: 

8

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
University of London Computer Centre (ULCC)
Provider URL: 

http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/

Tree of Life Web Project (ToL)

Thu, 2009-11-19 07:58 — drupalAdmin

“The Tree of Life (ToL) is a collection of materials documenting the diversity of the world's organisms. The conceptual and navigational structure of the ToL web site is based upon the phylogenetic relationships among the creatures it catalogues and describes.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ToL

Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
html
other
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
rt_av
Number of classes: 

7

Characteristics Comments: 

Access available also via webservice
Site includes a glossary

Terms and Conditions
Import/download instructions : 

http://www.tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/downloadtree.html

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and The University of Arizona Library
Provider URL: 

http://ag.arizona.edu and www.library.arizona.edu

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