The thesaurus: A historical viewpoint, with a look to the future

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 5-21

  Aitchison, Jean ^a   Clarke, Stella Dextre ^b  

^a British Standards Institution ^*

^b BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Facet analysis; Thesauri format; Thesauri history; Thesauri standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014151931     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v37n03_02     Document Type: Article

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