Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Thesauri (Uses for a thesaurus (Indexing tool: used for large technical…
Thesauri
Uses for a thesaurus
-
Subject headings: for example, abstracts in the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) are indexed with a general term from the LISA thesaurus.
-
-
-
-
Use in information profession evolved in 1950s.
-Structured list of terms can be used to support retrieval of relevant items.
Application: can provide subject keywords for abstracting and indexing services. Can also provide keywords for metadata schemes.
-
-
Facet analysis - methodology for building classification schemes. Ranganathan . Linguistic analysis of concepts in a subject area
Relationship construction: equivalence, hierarchical and associative.
-
Commonly thought of as e.g. Roget's thesaurus. This complements a dictionary.
This could actually be thought of as classification scheme - there is an ordering principle for words.
Other types of systematically controlled languages; classification schemes; taxonomies, concept/topic maps and ontologies; alphabetically arranged, word-based language; keyword lists.
-