By: Sandra Roe (Editor), Alan Thomas (Editor)

Hardcover

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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.

Introduction	p. 1
The Thesaurus: A Historical Viewpoint, with a Look to the Future	p. 5
Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources	p. 23
A Practical Exercise in Building a Thesaurus	p. 35
Thesaurus Construction: Key Issues and Selected Readings	p. 57
Thesaurus Consultancy	p. 75
Thesaurus Evaluation	p. 87
User Comprehension and Searching with Information Retrieval Thesauri	p. 103
Distributed Thesaurus Web Services	p. 121
Tools of the Trade: Vocabulary Management Software	p. 155
Multilingual Subject Access: The Linking Approach of MACS	p. 177
An Interview with Dr. Amy J. Warner (June 2003)	p. 193
Index	p. 199
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ISBN: 9780789019783
ISBN-10: 0789019787
Series: Cataloging and Classification Quarterly Ser.
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 184
Published: 17th September 2004
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 15.9  x 1.3
Weight (kg): 0.499