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USGS Gateway to the Earth : Controlled Vocabulary Project (Work in progress. Last update:5/16/02) Principal Investigator: Linda L. Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Geological Survey. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the US Geological Survey.

Index to Thesaurus Work Peter Schweitzer's Term Browser interface to current (in-process) Gateway Thesaurus (Note: this is the draft thesaurus that is being developed by the Gateway Team) Notes about the draft thesaurus Thesauri, Glossaries, Codes, Classification Reference Sources, compiled by Nancy Blair, January 2001. Indexing Guidelines (1120101) How to Evaluate Gateway Thesaurus (111201)	Related Links Taxonomy for Knowledge Organization Systems (draft by Gail Hodge) Set of links to library classification systems in The Public Service Librarian's Professional Guide to Internet Resources (Windsor School Library, Boston) Gateway Thesaurus Workshop slides (103 slides) (Candy Schwartz, Simmons College) Powerpoint slides, html version A Hypertextual Interface for a Searcher's Thesaurus (Eric Johnson and Pauline Cochrane, Univ. of Illinois) Overview of related term organization structures Marine Realms Information Bank The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project Global Change Master Directory	Goal of Project The goal of the project is to identify and structure a set of terminology that will be used to categorize the information and products of the US Geological Survey for their Gateway to the Earth. This will be done iteratively through drafts of the terminology that will evolve through coordination with the USGS Gateway to the Earth Standardized Lexicon and Tagging Team (chaired by Karen Kaye) and key agency personnel. The vocabulary selected for the terminology set will be based on the use of terminology within USGS and on closely related projects of other government agencies and information services. The goal is to implement a high-level set of categories that will interface easily with the existing category structures currently in use within the USGS. All thesaurus worked linked to this site are preliminary drafts unless specifically labeled otherwise. You may contact any member of the Lexicon and Tagging Team (above) with comments and questions.

Principal Investigator: Linda L. Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Geological Survey. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the US Geological Survey.