“The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a tool to improve the indexing and retrieval of transportation information. The thesaurus covers all modes and aspects of transportation.”
“The contributors intend to improve the clarity and bite of declarations of difference between conceptual schemes by enlarging the basis of literally translated and analysed texts from widely (though never radically) different intellectual cultures, and to make precise criteria of translation for classical Chinese, mainly through a detailed description in English of systematic recurrent semantic relations between Chinese words, especially distinctive semantic features.”
“The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and by genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and other pictures. In 2007, the subject and genre/format vocabularies, previously maintained separately, were merged into a single list.”
"System of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera and species, with [generic] characters, [specific] differences, synonyms, places" (as translated in the Wikipedia article, “Systema Naturae”). The first edition (1735) divides the natural world into the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, and the mineral kingdom. The 10th edition is the first publication to use binomial (genus-species) nomenclature throughout. Linnaeus is often referred to as the father of taxonomy.
STW is a richly interconnected vocabulary in English and German on economics and business economics as well as some related subject areas. It includes subject categories and numerous synonyms to enable users to find the appropriate terms.
The thesaurus provides vocabulary on any economic subject: about 5,800 standardized subject headings and about 17,000 entry terms to support individual keywords. You can also find technical terms used in law, sociology, or politics, and geographic names.
Includes persistent identifiers for each term.
Website is “A wiki for the development of a thesaurus of terms describing celebratory gestures in sports, from the high-five to the butt slap, and all points in between.”
Focuses on injury prevention and safety topics. Hosted by SafetyLit, an online source for scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention. This service is provided in collaboration with the World Health Organization.
“This work by Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624) was published in 1623, and is also called "A Comparative Table of Plants" or "The Survey of Plants." It deals with over 6,000 species of plants and is considered to have brought Western herbalism to perfection. Its nomenclature had a large influence on John Ray (1628-1707), Tournefort, and on Linnaeus himself.” (Description by University of Kyoto Library)
“The Enquiry into Plants was originally ten books, of which nine survive. The work is arranged into a system whereby plants are classified according to their modes of generation, their localities, their sizes, and according to their practical uses such as foods, juices, herbs, etc.
“Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku has been developed as part of the Māori Subject Headings Project jointly sponsored by LIANZA [the Library & Information System of New Zealand Aotearoa], Te Rōpū Whakahau and the National Library of New Zealand. The list of over 1,000 headings and their associated references is appropriate for use at a public library level.” “In the Māori worldview, aspects of taha tinana/the people, taha wairua/the spiritual and taha hinengaro/the mind are intrinsically connected and related to each other.
