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Internet Measurement Tool Taxonomy

“This tool taxonomy provides a preliminary overview of Internet and TCP/IP performance measurement tools and efforts. We categorize tools used to measure the Internet as well as general TCP/IP performance tools.”

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

CAIDA investigates practical and theoretical aspects of the Internet in order to:

  • provide insight into the macroscopic function of Internet infrastructure, behavior, usage, and evolution,
  • foster a collaborative environment in which data can be acquired, analyzed, and (as appropriate) shared,
  • improve the integrity of the field of Internet science,
  • inform science, technology, and communications public policies.
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

28

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
Provider URL: 

ILO Thesaurus

“The ILO Thesaurus is a compilation of more than 4000 terms relating to the world of work, in English, French, and Spanish. Covers labour and employment policy, human resources planning, labour standards, labour administration and labour relations, vocational training, economic and social development, social security, working conditions, wages, occupational safety and health and enterprise promotion.”

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

“The ILO Thesaurus … can be used as a subject classification system for collection arrangement in small libraries or labour information centres.”

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

19

Number of terms: 
4,000+
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Provider URL: 

HPMULTI

“The thesaurus concerns the key issues of health education, health promotion and patient education at European level. The selected descriptors of health issues are mostly related to health behaviour and issues, which are often subjects of patient education, consumer information and educational materials. The emphasis has been placed on the practice of health promotion.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

The European multilingual thesaurus on health promotion

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

“The aim of the thesaurus is to improve the communication and the collaboration in the field of health promotion and health education at the European level through stimulation of a common, uniform way of retrieval of terms and concepts.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
eq_lang_m
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Collaborative effort
Provider URL: 

Herb Thesaurus

“The thesaurus focus includes:
- reference to garden landscaping or design
- plant characteristics, companions and growing conditions
- the activities involved in herb production, propagation and preserving
- consumer uses of herbs (for food and non-food purposes)
Its peripheral focus includes:
- botanical terms and medical herb information
It does not include
- historical and non-consumer uses of herbs
- reference to garden landscaping or design
- marketing or purchasing information”

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

“This thesaurus functions as a means for indexing articles, photos, and web pages on some of the basic identifying characteristics of herbs. It is designed for the hobbyist or recreational gardener rather than scientist or medical reference. The preferred terminology is that of a home gardener rather than herbalists or botanists since they are the targeted end-user.”

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

7

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Tori Orr

Graffiti Taxonomy

“Graffiti Taxonomy is a project by Evan Roth aka ni9e of Graffiti Research Lab. It is a study of the styles of the alphabets used in graffiti found New York. Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity.” See http://www.impactlab.com/2008/04/16/graffiti-taxonomy/ for more information.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
eq_lang
hier_bn
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Graffiti Research Lab

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus / Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada

“The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology which represents all the fields treated in information resources of the Government of Canada. All fields of knowledge are represented in the thesaurus, to varying degrees.”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Thu, 2009-10-01
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“The tool is primarily intended for content managers, librarians, indexers and metadata developers in federal departments and agencies who must select controlled subject terms to index Government of Canada Web resources. In the Treasury Board Information Management Standard (TBITS) 39.2, the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is identified as the default controlled vocabulary for that purpose. Using the CST will help to reduce the duplication of effort in creating a variety of controlled vocabularies in the Government of Canada, as well as increase the interoperability of government web sites.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of terms: 
4448 English, 4563 French
Number of preferred terms: 
2143 (both languages)
Terms and Conditions
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Library and Archives Canada

GEMET Thesaurus (General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus)

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

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
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: 
eq_pri_eq
eq_lang_m
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Europa – The European Union On-Line
Provider URL: 

European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies

“The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies is a multi-lingual thesaurus containing ca. 8000 hierarchically arranged terms. It covers all the main aspects of the subject area of international relations and area studies.”

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

For online search of the databases maintained at the International Relations and Area Studies Gateway (IREON). “The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway is a product of leading German and international research institutes working in the fields of foreign and security policy and development policy. Their libraries and documentation centres form the Information Network International Relations and Area Studies (FIV-IBLK) consortium. FIV-IBLK provides specialist information for research, education and policy-making, thus fulfilling the role of a national information resource as outlined in the 1974 Information Programme of the German Federal Government, now under the auspices of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).”

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

26

Number of terms: 
8,200
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
International Relations and Area Studies Gateway (IREON)

Ethnographic Thesaurus

“The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access to information about folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Society and [American Folklife] Center developed the Thesaurus with the support of a generous grant from the Scholarly Communications Program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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

“Over a century of collecting and archiving ethnographic recordings and accompanying material has created a demand for the coordinated archival description of this body of work. In the coming century, the Ethnographic Thesaurus will be essential to efforts to describe ethnographic collections and to digitize them for online presentation and retrieval.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
American Folklore Society
Provider URL: 

ETB Thesaurus

NOTE: the ETB Thesaurus is currently known as the LRE Thesaurus
 

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version date: 
Fri, 2002-03-01
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“The ETB Thesaurus .. has been conceived within the ETB project as a documentary tool aimed to facilitate indexing and searching processes in two contexts: a metadata infrastructure for information exchange, connecting European educational repositories that have their own indexing systems and documentary languages; [and] native repositories characterised by an European dimension from the very beginning.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
othr
Characteristics Comments: 

Micro thesaurus classification

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
European Schoolnet (“a unique network of 31 Ministries of Education”)

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