Thesaurus Construction and Publishing Solutions
http://www.multites.com/index.htm
Provides software. Also has a list of Resources for Thesaurus Construction.
Taxonomy Warehouse (Factiva)
List of all vocabularies: http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/querybyvoc_search_include.asp
"Taxonomy Warehouse was created in 2001 as a valuable community resource, available free to users and vocabulary publishers to help organizations maximize their information assets and break through today’s information overload."
Index New Zealand Thesaurus
http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/content/thesaurus/index.htm
"The Index New Zealand Thesaurus has been designed to describe journal and newspaper articles about New Zealand and the South Pacific in the areas of social sciences and humanities. This version was released in November 2005 and contains over 1,200 preferred terms."
Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT)
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/create-capture-describe/describe/agift/agift-zip.aspx
"The Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) is a three-level hierarchical thesaurus that describes the business functions carried out across Commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia. It contains 25 high-level functions, each with second and third level terms, as well as non-preferred terms and related terms. A scope note describes the range of activities covered by a preferred term and provides cross-references."
Victoria Online Thesaurus (July 2008)
Department of Innovation, Industry, and Regional Development
http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/index.php?env=-innews/detail:m2110-1-1-8-s-0:n-9-1-0--
"The Victoria Online Thesaurus is a subject thesaurus of descriptive terms that reflect the themes and resources within Victoria Online (VO), the Victorian Government’s online portal. Victoria Online is a metadata-driven gateway to Victorian State, Federal and Local government information. The VO Thesaurus has been developed to populate the Keyword (DC.Subject) field within the VO Metadata Application Profile (VOMAP)."
Health Thesaurus - Health and Ageing Thesaurus
Australia - Department of Health and Ageing
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/Publishing.nsf/Content/health-thesaurus.htm
"The Health and Ageing Thesaurus is a living working tool which assists consistency and subject retrieval of health and ageing concepts. By standardising concepts to one single subject heading, the Thesaurus forms the basis for a common terminology within the Department.
MeSH (medical Subject Headings) produced by the US National Library of Medicine has been used as the basis of the medical terms and the corresponding hierarchical schedules in the Health and Ageing Thesaurus. We are very grateful for their permission to use MeSH in this way. For this edition 2004 MeSH has been used."
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities
http://nccs.urban.org/classification/NTEE.cfm
The NTEE-CC classification system is used by the IRS and NCCS to classify US nonprofit organizations. It divides the universe of nonprofit organizations into 26 major groups under 10 broad categories.
Google Book Search: Can use Google Book Search to find thesaurus - combine that term with others related to organizations, fund raising, charity etc.
TIPS: Taxonomies in the Public Sector
Taxonomies and thesauri: a list of references and resources for public
sector applications (Great Britain)
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/documents/Bibliography2005-05-11.pdf
"This bibliography has been prepared for the Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TIPS), a discussion group which supports the Metadata Working Group by encouraging information professionals in the public sector to meet and develop guidance on the implementation of taxonomies and metadata. While IPSV (Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary) and its predecessors GCL and LGCL are the main focus, public sector applications commonly use a complementary specialised vocabulary in tandem with IPSV. the bibliography gives background references across the gamut from development to exploitation and sharing the outputs"
United Nations Bibliographical Information System Thesaurus
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/DHLUNBISThesaurus.nsf
Entries are in six languages.
UNESCO Thesaurus
http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/
"The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation which includes subject terms for the following areas of knowledge: education, science, culture, social and human sciences, information and communication, and politics, law and economics. It also includes the names of countries and groupings of countries: political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and linguistic groupings."
International Labour Organisation (ILO) Thesaurus
http://www.ilo.org//thesaurus/defaulten.asp
Can use the rotated index to get a sense of the categories and content.
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