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Viet, Jean, Ed. – 1978
This new edition has the same purpose as its predecessors; i.e., to provide language which can process information relating to all aspects of economic and social development, and, at the same time, give a common dimension to the more specific vocabularies corresponding to each of them. However, it differs from previous editions on five major…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Educational Development, Indexing, Information Processing
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1991
This thesaurus is a tool for indexing and retrieving documents and data in the field of education in an international context. Introductory materials include a description of the thesaurus and discussions of its relationship with other thesauri, the thesaurus as an international instrument, its coverage and structure, fields, facets, descriptors…
Descriptors: Classification, Databases, Education, English
Rodman, John A. – 1982
This list of program types and keywords (with codes) was prepared for program officers at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institute of Education, and the National Science Foundation to use when preparing program announcements and requests for proposals. Staff persons responsible for screening such documents at colleges and…
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Indexing, Information Dissemination
Viet, Jean, Ed. – 1973
The multilingual EUDISED thesaurus is a documentary language specially conceived for the processing of information regarding education in Council of Europe member states. It is intended first for use by abstracting and indexing institutions, especially those which define the contents of documents for retrieval by computer. But it is also designed…
Descriptors: Coordinate Indexes, Education, English, Indexing
Milstead, Jessica L., Ed. – 1998
This thesaurus covers the fields of information science and librarianship to a depth that will adequately support indexing, with coverage of related and peripheral fields as warranted by the strength of their relationship to information science and librarianship. Among the related fields are computer science, linguistics, and behavioral and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Cataloging, Computer Science, Indexing
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1980
Compiled by the Manitoba Department of Education, this subject heading guide provides a listing of approximately 2,000 useful terms for cataloging and indexing in Canadian school libraries. Some scope notes, see, and see also references are provided, as well as indications of subdivisions for some categories. (RAA)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Guides
National Inst. of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1977
This thesaurus contains listings of descriptors or terms used to index the literature in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) documentation data base and to store and retrieve information about the literature for users of the service. Term selection is based largely on the vocabulary of the authors of the documents entering the…
Descriptors: Crime, Criminal Law, Criminology, Indexing
Lavender, G. B.; Findlay, Margaret A. – 1984
This core thesaurus of terms suitable for indexing Australian educational literature was developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research by means of a systematic and thorough revision of the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors." Based on the actual terminology of education in Australia, this thesaurus includes: key words and…
Descriptors: Education, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Mandel, Carol A. – 1987
This report responds to the need for North American libraries to provide computer support for multiple subject lists or controlled vocabularies as they automate separate catalogs using specialized thesauri for certain subject areas, materials, and audiences in addition to their main library catalogs. The focus of the report is the integration of…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Coordinate Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Brown, Lorene Byron – 1995
This volume provides subject access to materials on all aspects of African American life and culture using the same format as the "Library of Congress Subject Headings" (LCSH). It lists approximately 5,000 subject headings that are interfaced and linked with LCSH. The list contains some of the problems that accompany the LCSH list…
Descriptors: African Culture, Authority Control (Information), Black Culture, Black History
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Development Communication. – 1981
This controlled vocabulary comprising approximately 1,030 terms commonly used in the field of international development communication was created by the Clearinghouse on Development Communication of the Academy for Educational Development to analyze and index documents. This standard list of terms, designed to provide subject access to information…
Descriptors: Classification, Communications, Coordinate Indexes, Developed Nations
Chabran, Richard, Comp.; And Others – 1979
Designed to provide improved subject access over other existing subject heading lists for literature related to the Chicano experience, the Thesaurus is an initial attempt to remedy the absence of a baseline vocabulary for use in indexing and retrieving relevant materials from various information systems. Most of the approximately 700 entries are…
Descriptors: English, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Otchere, Freda E. – 1992
This thesaurus identifies nearly 4,000 subject heading terms that pertain specifically to the 41 countries that make up Africa south of the Sahara. The process of identifying these terms began with a search through the "Library of Congress Subject Headings," followed by searches of other subject heading materials and bibliographic…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Languages, African Studies
Evans, Max J.; And Others – 1982
This document comprises four reports related to the Midwest State Archives Guide Project. The first report, "Producing In-House Finding Aids and Administrative Reports: An Expanded Data Base Design," details an expanded SPINDEX database design that could be used to produce a variety of administrative reports. Specific examples are given…
Descriptors: Archives, Computers, Data Processing, Databases