[Sigia-l] pre-written controlled vocabs?
Andrew McNaughton
andrew at scoop.co.nz
Wed Jul 3 23:18:11 EDT 2002
I haven't heard of businesses selling a range of thesauri. Typically you
get the thesauri from the organizations that build them, usually as a
collaborative effort between a number of organizations who come together
in order to establish standards for sharing metadata.
In (mostly) pre-tertiary education, You could look at ERIC, GEM and EDNA
online. The SCIS thesaurus (printed or CD) is also quite good, being
designed for use by Australian school libraries. SCIS is a commercial
item, but we found the crowd that make it quite approachable. The groups
responsible for all of the above are working around Dublin Core based
colaboration standards using the DC-EDUCATION mailing list, and I imagine
you'd find them helpful if you raised queries there.
For medical thesauri you might find the research databases have useful
thesauri. I'm not sure what the story is for using these, but I expect
the publishers would see others using their thesauri as a good thing for
their business.
Andrew McNaughton
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, David R. Austen wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:46:39 -0400
> From: David R. Austen <dausten at hoosier.net>
> To: brendaj <brendaj at interaccess.com>
> Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] pre-written controlled vocabs?
>
> Hello, Brenda:
>
>
> A shot in the dark: Dialog has a database called ERIC, especially for
> Education. Don't know if they sell the ERIC *thesaurus* or not.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> http://zillionbucks.com -- Web hosting for the creative industry
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> Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 5:50:23 PM, you wrote:
> b> I know this products exists for purchase, but am having trouble
> finding it...
>
> b> Currently looking for a pre-defined thesaurus to be used in indexing a
> b> database for search. Looking for a
> b> place that sells thesauri based on topic, ex: "medical" or "education".
>
> b> Can anyone point me to a company who sells such things? I'd hate to spend
> b> hundreds of man hours
> b> reinventing the wheel if I don't have to.
>
> b> -Brenda
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