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These pages provide links to examples of thesauri and to classification schemes that may be used for controlling
database or WWW site subject content. They also provide links to descriptive and critical material about such
metainformation. Please navigate through them using the menu at the left.
Databases of Thesauri
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Aslib Thesauri collection [offline at Dec 2006 check]
Partial listing of print thesauri held in the Aslib library collection.
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Subject Analysis Systems Collection
The SAS collection of over 2000 titles on a wide variety of subjects is the North American Clearinghouse for classification schemes, subject heading lists, and thesauri. It was begun in 1924 by the Special Libraries Association and was later administered by the Bibliographic Systems Center and the School of Library Science at Case Western Reserve University. In 1976 it moved to Toronto and became part of the Inforum of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto.
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Synapse Taxonomy Warehouse
This service launched in April 2003 is a database of taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, classification schemes, and other authority files in print or digital form. It is searchable via a classification scheme, or by publisher. Individual entries include details on characteristics including numbers of terms, notation and relationship types.
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Thesauri
An inventory of about 600 European Commission thesauri that was maintained by Eurobrokers for I*M. It included North American examples.
- Connect to database via telnet [NO LONGER AVAILABLE VIA ECHO FROM 1998]
- EUROBROKERS (1992). Thesaurus guide : Analytical directory of selected vocabularies for information retrieval. 2nd ed. (EUR 14006 EN-DE-FR (1993) 1033 pp., FS, ECU 78; ISBN 92-826-4956-3; Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, L-2985 Luxembourg)
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