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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

“AAT is a structured vocabulary, including terms, descriptions, and other metadata for generic concepts related to art, architecture, conservation, archaeology, and other cultural heritage. Included are work types, styles, materials, techniques, and others.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

AAT

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Update frequency: 
Every two weeks
Available formats: 
XML UTF-8 and relational tables; Linked Open Data
Vocabulary Sample URL: 

use Search on a term to see portion of hierarchy at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

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

“The AAT is intended for all who catalog and record information about art, architecture, and objects of cultural heritage. It is also intended for those who retrieve this information.”

Used By: 

“Users include the following communities: museums, libraries, archives, visual resource specialists, conservation specialists, archaeology projects, architectural projects, students, researchers, system vendors, and information scientists.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
full
html
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of terms: 
353,285
Number of preferred terms: 
41,855
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
The data is released under Open Data Commons Attribution License.
Availability Comments: 

Adherence to ODC Attribution instructions for the correct assertion of attribution is encouraged. The preferred form of attribution is: "This [title or report or article or dataset] contains information from Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)® which is made available under the ODC Attribution License."

Licensing Options: 

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus® (AAT) is copyrighted by the J. Paul Getty Trust. “Companies and institutions interested in regular or extensive use of the Getty vocabularies should explore licensing options by sending an email to vocab@getty.edu.”At http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/download.html. The Linked Open Data dataset is available at vocab.getty.edu under an Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC BY 1.0).

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The Getty Vocabulary Program, The J. Paul Getty Trust
Provider contact details: 

Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer

“A gazetteer associates geographic names (place names and feature names) with geographic locations and other descriptive information. … The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer combines the U.S. place names from the U.S. Geological Survey's GNIS database, the non-U.S. place names from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's GNS database, and other gazetteer datasets. The ADL Gazetteer item metadata is based on the ADL Gazetteer Content Standard; the feature types are based on the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ADL Gazetteer

Vocabulary type: 
gaz
Current version/edition : 
07/03/2002
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“A gazetteer can be used to find the geographic location of a named place, and conversely can be used to find all named places within a geographic area. These searches can be restricted to particular types of features, for example, to "hydrographic features," or more specifically, to just "lakes."”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
"The ADL Project has created a list of all of the names, both primary and alternative names, from its ADL Gazetteer and is making it available for download and local use within the limits of our copyright statement."
Availability Comments: 

"The ADL Project has created a list of all of the names, both primary and alternative names, from its ADL Gazetteer and is making it available for download and local use within the limits of our copyright statement. We anticipate that the list will be useful for geoparsing applications where geographic names need to be identified in natural language text. Each entry in the list, one line per entry, consists of (1) the ADL Gazetteer Identifier for the entry associated with the name; (2) the name; (3) the date of entry into the database.The ADL Gazetteer Identifier for particular entries can be used with the Gazetteer Service Protocol to retrieve standard reports for the entry. The size of the compressed file is 55.1 Mbytes; uncompressed it is approximately 263.7 Mbytes."

Licensing Options: 

All rights reserved. ADL is prepared to license the ADL Gazetteer Services and Gazetteer Database and to establish affiliations with commercial and institutional organizations to further the advancement of gazetteers and related services and research.

Import/download instructions : 

Downloadable from the website as a TAR file. A free HTTP/FTP client is available to facilitate downloads.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Alexandria Digital Library, University of California at Santa Barbara

Alexandria Digital Library Feature Type Thesaurus

“A set of terms for categories of geographic places; terms to indicate the nature of a place.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ADL Feature Type Thesaurus, FTT

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Major subjects covered: 

Type terms for administrative, hydrographic, manmade, physiographic, and regional places.

Purpose: 

“It has been designed to be used with the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer.”

Overlap with related vocabularies: 

Used as the type scheme for the ADL Gazetteer. See http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/. Also, adopted by the USGS as a set of terms to use along with their Gateway Thesaurus. See http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/feat

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

6

Number of preferred terms: 
210
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
946
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
An XML version is available for downloading at http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ftt2.zip.
Availability Comments: 

Note: for this XML version, the "US+" and "UF+" relationships have been changed to "USW" and "UFW" coding and all angle brackets have been removed from the definitions. The USW and UFW relationships are used when a non-preferred term is linked to two preferred terms.

Licensing Options: 

Copyright (c) 1999-2004 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code or dataset must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of the University of California, Santa Barbara nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software or dataset without specific prior written permission.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Alexandria Digital Library, University of California at Santa Barbara

ASUG thesaurus

SAP is the largest software company in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. This thesaurus is provided by the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG), an active community of more than 75,000 members. The thesaurus helps to fulfill ASUG's mission to provide users in the SAP ecosystem with the resources, tools, and connections they need to maximize the return on their SAP investment. The terms include SAP software titles and technology (both current and legacy), annual event meetings, virtual events, company names, association positions, and a slew of management terminology.

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

The thesaurus serves as a basis for indexing and for guided search. ASUG members can now access the information they are looking for, and the ASUG is well utilized throughout.

Used By: 

ASUG members

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Number of terms: 
3,357
Number of preferred terms: 
1,518
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
1,839
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG)
Provider URL: 

Glossary of Asian Vegetables

“This site accommodates a thesaurus of the key Asian Vegetables and the different names that these vegetables are also commonly known under. It includes photographic information about many of the Asian vegetables seen in the retail outlets in Melbourne.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

Access to Asian Vegetables Thesaurus; Thesaurus of Key Asian Vegetables

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

This vocabulary was developed as part of the Access to Asia project, which had as one of its objectives expansion of the domestic market for Asian vegetables in the state of Victoria, Australia.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
html
Type of terms: 

All are vegetable names

Number of terms: 
75
Number of preferred terms: 
75
Depth of Hierarchy: 
1 level
Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

government sponsored vocabulary and website

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia

ASCE thesaurus

Covers all major aspects of civil engineering practice, technology, science, and theory.

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

Aerospace Engineering; Architectural Engineering; Bridges; Cold Regions; Computer Practices; Construction; Earthquake Engineering; Education; Engineering Mechanics; Environmental Engineering; Forensic Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Geomechanics; H

Purpose: 

For indexing and navigation of ASCE's online resources. The Civil Engineering Database contains over 100,000 bibliographic and abstract records of everything ASCE has published since 1970. The ASCE Online Research Library is a comprehensive tool for locating online content across all disciplines of civil engineering. 

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
perm
prmc
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of terms: 
Approximately 10,500
Number of preferred terms: 
Approximately 7,800
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
Approximately 2,700
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
American Society of Civil Engineers
Provider URL: 

Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms

“Each record in APA's databases contains controlled vocabulary terms from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.”
General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

APA Thesaurus

Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
hier
alph
Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Terms and Conditions
Availability Comments: 

Print version: $90.00

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
American Psychological Association
Provider URL: 

African Studies Thesaurus

"A structured vocabulary of 12,100 English terms in the field of African studies, the African Studies Thesaurus is developed and maintained by staff at the library of the African Studies Centre Leiden. It is used for indexing and retrieving material in the library collection and is directly linked to the catalogue."

General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 
“With the African Studies Thesaurus the ASC Leiden aims to facilitate the identification of relevant indexing terminology, provide a tool for managing African Studies information resources, and improve subject access to its own resources.”
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Relationship types: 
hier_bn
Number of terms: 
Approximately 12,100
Number of preferred terms: 
Approximately 5,200
Number of Non-Preferred terms: 
Approximately 6,900
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
African Studies Center Leiden (ASC Leiden)
Provider URL: 

HAPI Thesaurus

“The HAPI Thesaurus lists all authorized subject headings and cross-references used in HAPI Online.” ‘HAPI [the Hispanic American Periodicals Index] is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.

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

“HAPI indexes academic journal articles from the humanities and social sciences on topics related to the greater Latin American experience. Until 2001, HAPI indexed book reviews.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
HAPI Online: The Database of Latin American Journal Articles, UCLA Latin American Institute
Provider URL: 
Provider contact details: 

E-mail: info@hapi.ucla.edu; phone: 310-825-0810; fax: 310-206-2634; mail: Hispanic American Periodicals Index, UCLA Latin American Institute, 10349 Bunche Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1447

ERIC Thesaurus

“The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (Thesaurus) is a controlled vocabulary - a carefully selected list of education-related words and phrases assigned to ERIC records to organize them by subject and make them easier to retrieve through a search.”
General information
Vocabulary type: 
thes
Current version/edition : 
Summer 2008
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Vocabulary characteristics
Type of terms: 

Educational concepts

Relationship types: 
eq_pri_eq
hier_bn
rel_t
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
U.S. Department of Education
Provider URL: 

Pages

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