A practical exercise in building a thesaurus

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 35-56

  Shearer, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alphabetical thesaurus; Building a thesaurus; Practical exercises; Thesauro classification; Thesaurus construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644484284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v37n03_04     Document Type: Chapter

References (5)

1. B. C. Vickery, Classification and Indexing in Science (London: Butterworths, 1958).
2. S. R. Ranganathan, Elements of Library Classification (Bombay: Asia Publishing, 1945).
3. Jean Aitchison and others, Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual, 4th ed. (London: Aslib, 2000).
4. International Organization for Standardization, Documentation–Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri, 2nd ed. (ISO 2788) (Geneva: ISO, 1986). Also issued as British Standard BS 5723, 1987.
5. ANSI/NISO, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri (Bethesda, NISO, 1993) (ANSI/NISO Z39.19-1993).