User:Traugott/List of KOS on the web

Koslist

=Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available on the WWW=

''Based on a compilation as part of the Nordic Dublin Core Metadata Creator tool maintained by Traugott Koch  between Dec. 1996 and 2005 at NetLab, Lund University Now to be maintained collectively by the community.''

Thesauri, subject heading systems, ontologies
, categorized according to the DDC top levels

Generalities. (All subjects. Library and information sciences, Media, Computing)

 * UNESCO Thesaurus (English, French, Spanish)
 * OpenCYC Upper Ontology (general) (incl. knowledge base browser, inference engine, API, links to WordNet synsets)
 * Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) (select: Subject Authority Headings)
 * OCLC FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (experimental)
 * Semiotischer Thesaurus der Bibliothekswissenschaft (German, incomplete)
 * Finnish General Subject Headings List (VESA, in Finnish and Swedish)
 * Other Finnish thesauri
 * Svenska ämnesord (35 000 terms in Swedish, complete list of SAB subject headings and classification codes)
 * Humanioratesaurusen Humord (in Norwegian)

Social sciences. (Economics, Law, Government, Society, Environment, Education, Commerce)

 * HASSET: Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (based on a UNESCO thesaurus)
 * intute: Social sciences Thesaurus engine: using HASSET, CAB et al (linked to a search feature for intute: Social sciences)
 * Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV; LC)
 * Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Thesaurus (LC)
 * Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus (English, French)
 * # Canadian Government Controlled Subject Vocabularies
 * IATE InterActive Terminology for Europe (formerly: EURODICAUTOM) (multilingual EU terminology, 24 languages, with definitions)
 * CERES (California Environmental Resources Evaluation System)/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project
 * EPA Terms of Environment (terms, definitions, abbreviations, acronyms)
 * Global Change Master Directory (Earth Science Data), Science Keywords
 * Umweltthesaurus UMPLIS im niedersaechsischen Umweltdatenkatalog (UDK-NI, 28 000 terms) incl. webservice
 * GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, GEMET (EIONET. 5000 descriptors, 21 languages; avail. in XML, RDF/SKOS).
 * Florida Environments Online Thesaurus
 * ERIC Thesaurus (Assessment and Evaluation. Educational Resources Information Center, ERIC in the US)
 * European Education Thesaurus (EET) (to download. Covering the 11 official languages of the European Union plus in Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene and Turkish )
 * TESE - Thesaurus for Education Systems in Europe (in 8 languages)
 * European Treasury Browser Thesaurus (European Schoolnet. For download: Multilingual thesaurus in 14 languages, aimed to index educational resources)

Natural sciences and mathematics. (Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Biology)

 * NASA Thesaurus (only browsable in PDF)
 * Astronomy Thesaurus (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish; not updated since 1995)
 * Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes. Member of Species 2000)
 * NCBI Taxonomy database (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
 * Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum), ING
 * Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
 * Gene Ontology
 * Biocomplexity Thesaurus (NBII)

Technology (Applied sciences). (Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture)

 * Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), National Library of Medicine (MeSH homepage)
 * European multilingual thesaurus on health promotion (in 12 languages, to download in pdf or text)
 * Health and Ageing Thesaurus, Australian Government (for download in pdf)
 * Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Thesaurus (NIAAA)
 * HIV/AIDS Treatment Thesaurus (CATIE Canada)
 * IEEE Approved Indexing Keyword List (1998. distributed via email)
 * Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science and Technology
 * MDA Waterways Object Name Thesaurus
 * AGROVOC (FAO) (multilingual. incl. webservice, ontology relationships, KOS registry)
 * ASFA Thesaurus (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries)
 * AGRIFOREST, Finnish Agricultural Subjcet Headings (Finnish and English with AGROVOC and CAB terminology)
 * NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (National Agricultural Library, USDA; English and Spanish)

The arts. (Architecture, Fine arts, Graphic arts, Music)

 * Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
 * English Heritage National Monuments Record Thesauri, including the Thesaurus of Monument Types and the Archaeological Objects Thesaurus
 * Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
 * British Museum Object Names Thesaurus
 * British Museum Materials Thesaurus
 * Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I; LC)
 * Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II; LC)
 * GSAFD Genre Terms (Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc., 2nd edition 2000. Experimental service at OCLC with persistent identifiers, DC, MARC and thesaurus formats)
 * Thesaurus of Musical Instruments (Subset of LCSH)

Geography and history

 * Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
 * Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server Client
 * Geographic Feature Type Thesaurus (Alexandria Digital Library)
 * Thesaurus zu GNOMON Online. Internationales Informationssystem fuer die Klassische Altertumswissenschaft (in German)
 * Canadian Subject Headings (English, French RVM)

Authority lists

 * Library of Congress Authorities. Browse and display authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations. You can also download authority records in MARC format for use in a local system
 * CERL "Thesaurus". Contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, and personal names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century; 680 000 records

Lexical tools (English)

 * Lexical FreeNet (compute relations between concepts, shortest conceptual path, uses semantic relations from WordNet and statistical analyses of large corpora)
 * Visual Thesaurus (visualized thesaurus, accesses WordNet to display a given word graphically connected to related words)
 * WordNet on the Web - a Lexical Database for English (Princeton)
 * Alternative search interfaces to WordNet
 * Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (definitions, synonyms)

Dictionaries

 * OneLook Dictionary Search (search 699 dictionaries in one step)
 * Merriam-Webster thesaurus and dictionaries search

Universal

 * Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 22 Summaries, three top levels only, in excel and pdf
 * OCLC DeweyBrowser: Abridged 14 collection (abr14) (captions in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish)
 * Dewey Decimal Classification: WWlib Classification Browser (limited, not authorized)
 * DDC Deutsch Uebersichten (three top levels only, in German)
 * Dewey decimalklassifikation, Oeversikt oever DDC (three top levels only, pdf file, in Swedish)
 * Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Outline (LCCS, official version, shallow)
 * Library of Congress Classification (LCCS, not complete, not authorized)
 * Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Outline 750 classes
 * UDC online - complete edition in English (complete edition, 67.000 classes - access through subscription)
 * UDC online - complete edition in Czech "Mezinárodní desetinné třídění" (free access)
 * UDC online - complete edition in Slovenian (complete edition - access through subscription)
 * UDC online - an outline in Spanish "Clasificación decimal universal" (1000 classes, free access)
 * UDC online - an abridged edition in Italian (4000 classes - free access)
 * UDC online - an outline in Finish "Yleinen kymmenluokittelu" (1000 classes, free access)
 * Information Coding Classification (ICC), designed and constructed by Ingetraut Dahlberg (see: "Classification matrix")
 * Integrative level classification (ILC), draft schedule, research project, under development

National general

 * Regensburger Verbundklassifikation (RVK) (in German)
 * Nederlandse Basisclassificatie (BC) (pdf file; in Dutch)
 * Emneregister til Deweys desimalklassifikasjon (DDK4) (NBO. In Norwegian)
 * BIBSYS emneregister (search captions and notations, DDK/Dewey, UDK, UTB. In Norwegian)
 * SAB classification system (LIBRIS union catalogue subject tree and systematic database entry; in Swedish)
 * SAB classification codes, searchable and browsable list (via subject headings, in Swedish)
 * Yleisten kirjastojen luokitusjaerjestelmae = Finnish public libraries classification system (Finnish, Swedish, English)

Subject specific, international

 * Mathematics Subject Classification 2000 (MSC), with conversion tables to the 1991 version
 * Mathematics on the web: Subject Classifications (from AMS)
 * International Reviews on Mathematical Education/Zentralblatt fuer Didaktik der Mathematik: Subject Classification Scheme (ZDM)
 * GAMS (Guide to Available Mathematical Software) Problem Classification System
 * ACM Computing Classification System (CCS. formerly CR)
 * Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)
 * Structural Classification of Proteins (scop)
 * National Library of Medicine Classification
 * National (USA) Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) Classification scheme
 * AGRIS Subject Categories
 * AGRICOLA Subject Category Code, incl. Scope notes (from AgNIC/NAL)
 * Global Forest Decimal Classification (GFDC) (incl. related class.; English, German)
 * ICONCLASS (iconographical research, documentation of images; 6 languages)
 * North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
 * Ortelius ""Thesaurus" =Classification of scientific disciplines (English, Hungarian)
 * International Patent Classification (IPC) (English, French)

Subject specific, national

 * Klassifikation Sozialwissenschaften fuer SOLIS und SOFIS (in German)
 * Joint Academic Coding System. Higher Education Statistics Agency, UK (files)

Lists of other schemes which predominnatly are not freely and/or digitally available: MARC Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions (of MARC 21). (Part III: Classification Sources and Part IV: Subject/Index Term Sources).

Taxonomy Warehouse

Contact: Traugott Koch traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.de Created: 1996-12-10 Last update: 2007-10-16

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