7. Use of Controlled Vocabularies
in Information Storage and Retrieval Systems

-- Examples taken from the real world (in 2000s)*

System or Project / CV in use Screen shot (click to see full-size images)

Digital Gazetteer

Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer Server site
Legacy site: http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
Current site: https://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

--Type a location name --> select a feature type -->search and display

Alexandria Digital Library Feature Type Thesaurus
http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ver100301/

Machine Aided Indexing (MAI)

NASA Thesaurus Machine Aided Indexing
Ref: https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(94)90075-2

--Copy-paste a text --> select a term based on frequency --> search the thesaurus for this term

NASA Thesaurus (The thesaurus browser brings to pdf files)
https://www.sti.nasa.gov/nasa-thesaurus/

NASA Technical Reports Server
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/

Machine-Aided-Indexing, Rule-based


Data Harmony
http://www.dataharmony.com/index.html

Machine Aided Indexer
(Not in public domain.)
-- Build a thesaurus first --> check rules --> use MAI to see suggested terms

Multilingual termbank

Institute for Horticultural Development (IHD)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/agvic/ihd/

Access to Asian Vegetables
-- Go to the mail thesaurus page --> click on any vegetable name --> get multilingual names of the item http://hitite.adlibsoft.com/wwwopac.exe

Access to Asian Vegetables Thesaurus http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/trade/asiaveg/thes-00.htm

 

Illustrated Thesaurus

English-Heritage
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/

Illustrated Thesaurus
http://hitite.adlibsoft.com/index.html
-- Illustrated term search --> choose 'Arched' shape, 'Many' storyes, situated in 'Country' --> records and images

National Monuments Record Thesauri
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/thesaurus/thes_splash.htm

Visual thesaurus

PlumbDesign
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

-- Search for "pitch", look under the options of 2D, 3D, and auto-pilot display

Search engine

Froogle

http://froogle.google.com/

Commercial website

BestCellars.com

http://www.bestcellars.com

 

Cross-country and Cross-language Online Bibliographic Catalogs

MACS Multilingual Access to Subjects
http://laborix.kub.nl/prj/macs/

Controlled Vocabularies involved:
SWD/RSWK (Schlagwortnormdatei / Regeln für den Schlagwortkatalog)
(for German),
RAMEAU
(Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié)(for French) and
LCSH
(Library of Congress Subject Headings (for English)

Multilingual Thesaurus

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Terminology

Agrovoc Thesaurus - agriculture
-- Type any word, say, rice and see matched words in 6 languages including English, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese



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| 1. Why Vocabulary Control | 2. Principles | 3. Structures | 4. Semantic Relationships |
| 5. Displays | 6. When to use | 7. Examples of use | 8. About Z39.19 |
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*Source: Compiled by the author of this tutorial, not included in the Z39.19.