While it is true that the adoption of SKOS will make it easy to publish and access different astronomical vocabularies, the fact is that there is no vocabulary which makes it easy to jump-start the use of vocabularies in generic astrophysical VO applications: each of the previously developed vocabularies has their own limits and biases.
The IUGS Commission on the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (COGEOINFO, previously COGEODOC) in collaboration with ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) has recently published the second edition of the Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences. The printed version contains six languages English (American), French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. The database also contains Czech and Finnish.
NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) provides reference terminology for many NCI [National Cancer Institute] and other systems. It covers vocabulary for clinical care, translational and basic research, and public information and administrative activities.
The trilingual and structured vocabulary DeCS - Health Sciences Descriptors - was created by BIREME to serve as a unique language in indexing articles from scientific journals, books, congress proceedings, technical reports, and other types of materials, as well as for searching and retrieving subjects from scientific literature from information sources available on the Virtual Health Library (VHL) such as
EMWIS is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the Euro Mediterranean partnership countries.
This thesaurus was developed as a guide for the indexer and has been published to aid the users of the information services provided by the Radiation Chemistry Data Center. The indexing terms listed in the thesaurus are those found in the RCDC Bibliographic Data Base and therefore are the terms used to generate the keyword index in this volume. The RCDC thesaurus covers radiation chemistry in depth, as well as related topics in phtochemistry, luminescence, esr and the kinetics of reactive intermediates.
Embase is a bibliographic database produced by Elsevier B.V. Embase indexing is based upon the Elsevier Life Science Thesaurus Emtree, a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary for biomedicine and related life sciences.
A signature product of Tall Timbers is the E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database, which was created by the library and is still its major focus. This searchable database is available via the Web. The library’s Fire Ecology Thesaurus is a companion product for utilizing the database on the Web. More than 27,000 bibliographic records are in the database. The database and thesaurus are research tools for station staff, the research community at large, and the public.
This Thesaurus is designed to facilitate searching of the Derwent BIOTECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS online database.
The list of searchable keywords found in the Thesaurus is, unvavoidably, not comprehensive since terminology used in Titles and Abstracts is a mixture of controlled and uncontrolled terms. In addition, novel terms frequently appear in the database. Therefore, the absence of a term from this Thesaurus does not imply that the word cannot be found in the database.
