Use of the UNESCO Thesaurus for archival subject indexing at UK NDAD

Journal of the Society of Archivists

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-54

  Garrod, Peter ^a  

^a University of London Computer Centre   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034343016     PISSN: 00379816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379810050006902     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. UNESCO, UNESCO Thesaurus: A Structured List of Descriptors for Indexing and Retrieving Literature in the Fields of Education, Science, Social and Human Science, Culture, Communication and Information, 2nd edn (Paris, 1995).
2. Handouts supplied by Meg Sweet at the 'Access to Archives (A2A) Retro-Conversion Workshop' held at the Public Record Office on 29 April 1999. The potential of the UNESCO Thesaurus to act as a subject indexing standard for the A2A Project was explored at a seminar held at the PRO on 8 December 1999, 'What is the UNESCO Thesaurus and why are we using it?'.
3. Louise Craven, 'Indexing and authority files in an EAD context', talk presented at the 'EAD European Users Day' held at the Public Record Office on 27 October 1999.
4. An on-site service at the University of London Library is available for users who do not have access to the internet. This service is in the form of a dedicated computer with an internet connection and is bookable by appointment.
5. Public Record Office, The Public Record Office Guide 1999 (Kew, 1999).
6. International Council on Archives, General International Standard Archival Description (Ottawa, 1994).
7. NDAD's use of ISAD(G) was examined in June to July 1999 by Charlotte Smith, a student on the archives administration course at University College London, in a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. This led to recommendations on how ISAD(G) can be adapted to the description of computer datasets: Elizabeth Shepherd and Charlotte Smith, 'The Application of ISAD(G) to the Description of Archival Datasets', JSA, vol 21 (2000), pp 59-91.
8. Library of Congress website, page entitled 'Tools for authority control - subject headings' 〈http:// lcweb.loc.gov/cds/lcsh.html〉 consulted on 20 May 1999.
9. Janet Foster, 'Subject indexing survey and analysis: a report for JISC: NFF Archives Sub-committee' (April 1997); online copy 〈http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/srch/reports/subindex.htm〉 consulted on 20 May 1999.
10. Harriette Hemmasi, 'The music thesaurus: a faceted approach to LCSH', paper presented to 'Authority Control in the 21st Century: An Invitational Conference', 31 March to 1 April 1996, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395, USA; online copy 〈http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/authconf/hemmasi.htm〉 consulted on 26 May 1999.
11. SHIC Working Party, Social History and Industrial Classification (SHIC): A Subject Classification for Museum Collections, 2nd edn (Cambridge, 1993).
12. UNESCO, UNESCO Thesaurus, pp ix-x. The UNESCO Bibliographic Database can be searched via the internet at 〈http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/unesbib.html〉.
13. National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (London, 1997).
14. British Standards Institution, BS 5723: 1987 (ISO 2738-1986): British Standard Guide to the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri (London, 1987).
15. Data Archive website, page entitled 'Introduction to HASSET' 〈http://dasun1.essex.ac.uk/services/ intro.html〉 consulted on 19 May 1999; page entitled 'The HASSET Thesaurus Project' 〈http:// dawww.essex.ac.uk/projects/thesaurus.html〉 consulted on 19 May 1999.
16. Data Archive website, page entitled 'Introduction to HASSET' 〈http://dasun1.essex.ac.uk/services/ intro.html〉 consulted on 19 May 1999; page entitled 'The HASSET Thesaurus Project' 〈http:// dawww.essex.ac.uk/projects/thesaurus.html〉 consulted on 19 May 1999.
17. UNESCO, UNESCO Databases (Paris, 1997). Superseded by UNESCO, UNESCO Databases on CD-ROM, 7th revised edn (Paris, 1999).
18. UNESCO, UNESCO Databases (Paris, 1997). Superseded by UNESCO, UNESCO Databases on CD-ROM, 7th revised edn (Paris, 1999).
19. Library of Congress website, page entitled 'Thesaurus for graphic materials I: subject terms (TGM I)' 〈http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgml/toc.html〉consulted on 25 May 1999.
20. Details of the NDAD thesaurus database are taken from Ruth Vyse and Frances Blomeley, 'The Thesaurus', NDAD News no 4 (30 November 1998): see 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/events/newsletters/ news004/thesaurus.htm〉. I am very grateful to Dr. Blomeley for updating the text and the illustration, and for suggesting amendments to this article.
21. For information about MySQL, see the website of T.c.X. DataKonsult AB 〈http://www.tcx.se/〉.
22. International Labour Organisation, ILO Thesaurus: Labour, Employment and Training Terminology, 5th edn (Geneva, 1998).
23. British Standards Institution, BS 6529: 1984: British Standard Recommendations for Examining Documents, Determining their Subjects and Selecting Indexing Terms (London, 1984), section 5.4.
24. Michael Cook, The Management of Information from Archives (Aldershot, 1986), pp 143-145.
25. Keith Sweetmore, 'National Networking Demonstrator Project for Archives: report of the archival consultant, version 2.0 (Final)' (November 1998), section 6.2; online copy 〈http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ projects/srch/reports/ksfinhtmldoc.html〉 consulted on 8 June 1999.
26. E-mail from Janet Foster to Peter Garrod, 21 October 1999.
27. For copies of these catalogues, see 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/datasets/10/series.htm〉 (series catalogue); 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/datasets/10/1/1/index.htm〉 (dataset catalogue: original survey (1994)); 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/datasets/10/1/2/index.htm〉 (dataset catalogue: 1995 update); 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/datasets/10/1/3/index.htm〉 (dataset catalogue: 1996 update); and 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/datasets/10/dd.htm〉 (dataset documentation catalogue).