Glottolog provides a comprehensive catalogue of the world's languages, language families and dialects. It assigns a unique and stable identifier (the Glottocode) to (in principle) all languoids, i.e. all families, languages, and dialects. Any variety that a linguist works on should eventually get its own entry.
The European training thesaurus contains more than 2500 terms (descriptors and non-descriptors) related to vocational education and training (VET). It is an essential working tool of Cedefop’s information and documentation service, currently used to index and retrieve information from Cedefop’s databases: bibliographical database VET-Bib, ETV news database, European research overview database, European training village website.
This thesaurus, used and developed by the United Kingdom Department of Health, covers the core areas of health and social welfare and the subjects of health services, health administration and equipment, human biology, preventive and clinical medicine, drugs and the safety of medicines, medical supplies, pathology, nursing practice and administration, social services and social work.
The CIRRIE Thesaurus is an alphabetical listing of approved terms for searching the CIRRIE Database.
This thesaurus was adapted from the National Rehabilitation Information Center's REHABDATA Thesaurus, with alterations to make it more international in scope and reflective of the NIDRR focus areas.
These subject terms include names of persons, businesses, churches and other organizations, street and place names and various topics related to the files (e.g., jails, icehouses, and taxes). There are 8781 distinct subject terms. This thesaurus contains a list of all subject terms assigned.
This draft Business Classification Scheme describes UC's common business functions and supporting activities, and ensures that the context in which records are created and used can be identified and preserved over time. It also forms the first three levels of a future University -wide file plan. In the meantime, business units and College's wishing to follow the proposed model should contact the Information and Records Management Unit to discuss accessing and adopting the file share folder hierarchy.
The Bioethics Thesaurus is a controlled subject heading vocabulary developed at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, specifically for indexing the literature of the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics. It was used to index BIOETHICSLINE from 1975-2000. The first published edition of the Bioethics Thesaurus appeared in the 1975 edition of Bibliography of Bioethics, containing 475 Keyword Descriptors. In 1999 a print edition of the Bioethics Thesaurus was published that contained 715 Keyword Descriptors.
This Thesaurus is designed to assist Australian researchers to access Australian and overseas literature on land transport. However, it may also be useful to those involved in metadata and knowledge management within the land transport arena.
The Gazetteer of Australia 2010 contains more than 322,000 geographic names in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names of Australasia.
The Pathways thesauri contain the terms used to describe the items in the AIATSIS Collections. This thesaurus contains headings for languages and peoples within Australia. The headings include the language code, e.g., (N156)), and a grid reference to the 1:250,000 map grid series, e.g.. Mutumui language (Y63.1) (Qld SD55-09).
