Category Archives: Structural

CESSDA-ELSST New Release 6 September 2016

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Jeannine Beeken

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is available in 12 languages: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish. We are proud to announce that since September 2016 the average of all translated Preferred … Continue reading →

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Restructuring a thesaurus: the case of the Education, Skills and Children's Services Thesaurus

Posted on May 11, 2015 by sbarbalet

Suzanne Barbalet Some weeks ago I visited the offices of the Department for Education (DfE), Westminster to gain a snapshot view of innovative work being undertaken there to revise the in-house thesaurus: the Education, Skills and Children’s Services Thesaurus (ESCS). … Continue reading →

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Concept maps

Posted on November 19, 2014 by sbarbalet

Suzanne Barbalet Just as the writer’s storyboard maps and links book chapters ‘concept maps’, for thesaurus construction, aim to solve problems caused by ambiguous labels or out-dated concepts and aid the revision of old hierarchies or the construction of new … Continue reading →

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Axioms and Constraints: Ensuring Structural Validity

Posted on May 29, 2014 by sbarbalet

Suzanne Barbalet Axioms underpin the business logic of the thesaurus management system; that is how thesaurus concepts can be created, displayed, stored and changed. Constraints, on the other hand, ensure structural, thesaural integrity. They also take account of semantic web … Continue reading →

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From Trees to Webs: Some reflections on 21st Century Thesauri Structure

Posted on February 25, 2014 by sbarbalet

Suzanne Barbalet Has the tree structure outgrown its usefulness or is the “tree of knowledge” image so powerful that it remains a fundamental principle of knowledge organization? This was a recurrent question first raised by Scott Weingart of the University … Continue reading →

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Mapping and matching – accommodating divergence and protecting integrity

Posted on October 1, 2013 by aetherukda

Lucy Bell Wherever HASSET and ELSST share concepts, these concepts should, ideally, be identical – in labels, metadata, relationships.  Everything.  That said, this may not be possible every single time.  The two thesauri have different cultural identities – and these … Continue reading →

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