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Revolution Health taxonomy

Wed, 2009-11-18 13:13 — Anonymous (not verified)

Covers a variety of topics of interest to professional and nonprofessional health care providers. Associated with a comprehensive database at the award-winning website RevolutionHealth.com. The database contains authoritative articles on health topics, as well as an extensive searchable directory of health providers.

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

RHG taxonomy; Revolution Health Group taxonomy

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

Provides a basis for indexing and guided search of the database for RevolutionHealth.com, a free, comprehensive health and medical information site specifically designed with caregivers in mind.

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Revolution Health Group (RHG)
Provider URL: 

http://www.revolutionhealth.com/

Cook's Thesaurus

Wed, 2009-11-18 13:01 — drupalAdmin

“The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.” An article on the Cook’s Thesaurus may be found at http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud111503-roberti.shtml

General information
Vocabulary type: 
glos
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.foodsubs.com/

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

Recommends substitutions for ingredients that may be unavailable. Also provides alternate names that a food shopper may encounter at a grocery store. These functions illustrate useful extensions of the synonym relationship.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of terms: 

Terms include illustrations

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The Cook’s Thesaurus
Provider URL: 

http://www.foodsubs.com/

Classification of dinosaurs (a small section)

Wed, 2009-11-18 12:58 — drupalAdmin

A taxonomic classification of dinosaurs. Presented in Zthes XML format.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Vocabulary URL: 

http://zthes.z3950.org/schema/dino.xml

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

To illustrate how the Zthes XML-based language may be used for thesauri.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Zthes Working Group
Provider URL: 

http://zthes.z3950.org

CERL Thesaurus

Wed, 2009-11-18 12:53 — drupalAdmin

“The CERL Thesaurus File is a unique facility developed to address the particularly European issue that place name and personal names in Europe varied from country to country in the period of hand press printing (1450 - c. 1830). As such, it is an essential research tool for scholars and researchers of the period. … The CERL Thesaurus contains names of persons, corporate bodies, places and printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed during the hand-press era (1450 - ca.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Vocabulary URL: 

https://www.cerl.org/resources/main

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

“The file has been created as a reference tool for bibliographers and scholars of the history of the book. The CERL Thesaurus supports internal linking between imprint places and imprint names, so that the user can see which printers are recorded in the CERL Thesaurus as having worked in a specific printing place, thus giving valuable new insights into book production in Europe in the hand-press era.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Consortium of European Research Libraries
Provider URL: 

www.cerl.org

Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's Taxonomy

Wed, 2009-11-18 12:47 — drupalAdmin

The relevant passage in Borges’s essay “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins” (“El idioma analítico de John Wilkins”) "These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
taxon
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.ceframe.eu/thesaurus/EN/index.php

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

To illustrate illogical and paradoxical classification

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

Book of Imaginary Beings, Borges' bestiary, a catalog of fantastic animals. Jorge Luis Borges wrote and edited the Book of Imaginary Beings in 1957 as the original SpanishManual de zoología fantástica, or Handbook of Fantastic Zoology, expanding it in 1967 and 1969 to the final El libro de los seres imaginarios. The English edition, created in collaboration with translatorNorman Thomas di Giovanni, contains descriptions of 120 mythical beasts from folklore and literature. 

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Wikipedia, UKOLN
Provider URL: 

http://en.wikipedia.org; http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

Astronomy Thesaurus

Wed, 2009-11-18 12:44 — drupalAdmin

Funded primarily by the International Astronomical Union, with significant assistance also from the Anglo-Australian Observatory and the University of Sydney. Consists of terms used by professional astronomers in their research. The web version is based entirely on the print version developed in the 1990s.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
Compiled by Robyn M. Shobbrook (AAO) & Robert R. Shobbrook (Syd. Uni.)
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus/

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

English, German, Spanish

Major subjects covered: 

Astronomy, astrophysics

Purpose: 

“The main aim in producing this reference work is to try to standardise the terminology in the field of astronomy for the purposes of aiding unambiguous library cataloguing and more precise recall of data from computer databases. The thesaurus is intended for use by astronomy librarians and scientists. Its compilation was originally requested during a meeting of Commission 5 (Documentation) of the International Astronomical Union at the New Delhi General Assembly of the IAU in 1984.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Provider URL: 

http://msowww.anu.edu.au/index.php

NG gazetteer

Wed, 2009-11-18 12:32 — Anonymous (not verified)

A taxonomy of place names with associated information such as latitude and longitude, alternative spellings, and feature types. It standardizes place name content from the National Geographic Society's three main databases for archival geographic metadata: the NGS Publications Index, the Image Collection, and the Film Library.

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

Serves as a basic resource for all National Geographic Society staff, and as a tool for research. Provides a basis for uniform indexing of publications and online content.

Used By: 

National Geographic Society staff.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
Type of terms: 

Place names

Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of terms: 
58,700
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
National Geographic Society (NGS)
Provider URL: 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

ASIS&T Thesaurus of Information Science, Technology, and Librarianship

Wed, 2009-11-18 11:45 — drupalAdmin

Thesaurus of information management concepts

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ASIS&T Thesaurus

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Author or Editor: 
Alice Redmond-Neal and Marjorie M.K. Hlava
Current version/edition : 
THird Edition
Current version date: 
Sun, 2009-02-01
Update frequency: 
annually
Available formats: 
XML, tab delimited
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

Indexing ASIS&T Journal, Bulletin, and other publications

Used By: 

ASIS&T

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
perm
prmc
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of classes: 

18

Number of terms: 
2905
Number of preferred terms: 
1851
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
1054
Depth of Hierarchy: 
6 levels
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
ASIS&T
Provider URL: 

www.asis.org

Provider section comments: 

"Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information."

Weather Channel thesaurus

Wed, 2009-11-18 11:37 — Anonymous (not verified)

Contains terminology related to weather conditions, weather reporting, and results of severe weather.

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

In combination with automated indexing software, provides a consistent, dependable way to log and describe the assets of the Weather Channel's library, which includes nearly 18,000 media assets totaling hundreds of hours of weather-related video.

Vocabulary characteristics
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
nier_part
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The Weather Channel
Provider URL: 

http://www.weather.com/

Discovery Channel taxonomy

Wed, 2009-11-18 11:24 — Anonymous (not verified)

The Discovery Channel taxonmy covers a broad array of subjects to match the diverse programming at the network.

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

The ability to reach down to the paragraph and image level using the taxonomy leverages the agility of the programming for each day.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The Weather Channel
Provider URL: 

http://dsc.discovery.com/

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