The Thesaurus » (New Edition)

Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the thesaurus!

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards employed for thesaurus
construction. This book provides both the history of thesauri and tutorials on usage to increase your understanding of thesaurus creation, use, and
evaluation. This reference tool offers essential information on thesauri in the digital environment, including Web sites, databases, and software. For
50 years, the thesaurus has been a core reference book; The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision celebrates this history and speculates on
the future of vocabulary-switching tools.

This book will familiarize you with contemporary and emerging functions of thesauri, including international and multilingual developments. The
Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision provides information and library professionals including indexers, abstractors, subject catalogers,
classifiers, and reference librarians a historical overview of the thesaurus and its past as well as recent developments. This book also gives
patrons, readers, and researchers more effective techniques in vocabulary management and offers insight on how thesauri are devised and compiled.

This book addresses:

changing definitions, characteristics, functions, and applications of thesauri the value of standards, evaluation, use and review of software, and role
and work of consultants during thesauri construction and maintenance multicultural issues that affect thesauri creation, such as mapping and interoperability
education and training

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision also provides you with extensive bibliographies related to issues and problems in thesaurus
construction and design, such as developing standards in support of electronic thesauri.

President, Semantic Studios; Co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Peter Morville

THIS BOOK IS THE MISSING LINK that connects 50 years of experience in traditional thesaurus construction to the age of the Internet. by uniting the substantial knowledge base about thesauri that resides within the field of library and information science with fresh insights into the use of controlled vocabularies on the World Wide Web, the editors have succeeded in assembling A TRULY VALUABLE TEXT. Whether you're an aspiring information architect of an experienced library professional, this book is REQUIRED READING. . . . PUTS HTML, XML, TOPIC MAPS, AND THE SEMANTIC WEB INTO CONTEXT.

Introduction (Susan K. Roe and Alan R. Thomas)
The Thesaurus: A Historical Viewpoint, with a Look to the Future (Jean
Aitchison and Stella Dextre Clarke)
Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources (Alan R. Thomas)
A Practical Exercise in Building a Thesaurus (James R. Shearer)
Thesaurus Construction: Key Issues and Selected Readings (Marianne Lykke
Nielsen)
Thesaurus Consultancy (Leonard Will)
Thesaurus Evaluation (Leslie Ann Owens and Pauline Atherton Cochrane)
User Comprehension and Searching with Information Retrieval Thesauri (Jane
Greenberg)
Distributed Thesaurus Web Services (Eric H. Johnson)
Tools of the Trade: Vocabulary Management Software (Melissa A. Riesland)
Multilingual Subject Access: The Linking Approach of MACS (Patrice Landry)
An Interview with Dr. Amy J. Warner (June 2003) (Alan R. Thomas and Sandra
K. Roe)
Index
Reference Notes Included