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* [http://www.bayside-indexing.com/Milstead/about.htm About Thesauri] This short piece, by thesaurus authority Jessica Milstead, gives organizations reasons and basic methods for starting out on thesaurus building. | * [http://www.bayside-indexing.com/Milstead/about.htm About Thesauri] This short piece, by thesaurus authority Jessica Milstead, gives organizations reasons and basic methods for starting out on thesaurus building. | ||
− | * [http:// | + | * [http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/677/thesaur/main00.htm Introductory Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction] Author Tim Craven, of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario states that: "The purpose of this module is to teach you the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus." It does a very good job with the basics. |
* [http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thesprin.htm Thesaurus Principles and Practice] Also fairly basic, but with some nice graphics, this was based on a tutorial from Willpower Information. | * [http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thesprin.htm Thesaurus Principles and Practice] Also fairly basic, but with some nice graphics, this was based on a tutorial from Willpower Information. | ||
* [http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19.html Guidelines for the Construction, Format and Management of Monolingual Thesauri] This is the NISO standard document on thesaurus construction, now under revision, but still valid. | * [http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19.html Guidelines for the Construction, Format and Management of Monolingual Thesauri] This is the NISO standard document on thesaurus construction, now under revision, but still valid. |
Revision as of 14:31, 24 September 2010
Vocabulary and Thesaurus Construction resources:
- About Thesauri This short piece, by thesaurus authority Jessica Milstead, gives organizations reasons and basic methods for starting out on thesaurus building.
- Introductory Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction Author Tim Craven, of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario states that: "The purpose of this module is to teach you the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus." It does a very good job with the basics.
- Thesaurus Principles and Practice Also fairly basic, but with some nice graphics, this was based on a tutorial from Willpower Information.
- Guidelines for the Construction, Format and Management of Monolingual Thesauri This is the NISO standard document on thesaurus construction, now under revision, but still valid.
- Publications on thesaurus construction and use This bibliography, provided by Willpower Information, is an excellent compendium of available resources, both digital and physical.
- Automated and manual approaches to the provision of thesauri and subject vocabularies This report by Rosemary Russell and Michael Day of UKOLN as part of the HILT: High Level Thesaurus Project gives a good overview of the issues of searching and browsing using controlled vocabularies.
- Thesauri A-Z A useful alphabetic list of available thesauri.
- Creating and Managing Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Metadata Powerpoint tutorial presented at the 2004 Dublin Core Conference by Stuart Sutton and Joseph Tennis.