0100,0100,0100The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) is pleased to
announce that a web interface has been created for the UNESCO
Thesaurus. This is available at:
http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/
The web site allows the UNESCO Thesaurus to be browsed
alphabetically and hierarchically. It also includes French and
Spanish indexes of English preferred terms, and links to PDF files
of the introduction to the 1995 printed edition of the Thesaurus.
Interest in the UNESCO Thesaurus has increased following recent
proposals that it should act as a standard for subject access
points submitted to the English component of a UK National
Archival Network. A seminar on its use was held at the Public
Record Office on 8 December 1999. Repositories which are using
or experimenting with the use of the UNESCO Thesaurus for
indexing purposes include the PRO, the Institute of Education
(University of London), the School of Oriental and African Studies
(University of London), King's College London, and the UK National
Digital Archive of Datasets (http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/). UK NDAD is
operated by ULCC on behalf of the PRO.
The web site has been developed by ULCC pro bono publico with
the permission of UNESCO. We hope that it will promote the use
of the UNESCO Thesaurus in the archival community, and assist
those repositories which may wish to evaluate it for indexing
purposes.
Peter Garrod ([log in to unmask])
Assistant Archivist
UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/)
University of London Computer Centre, 20 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1DZ
Tel: 0207 692 1353 Fax: 0207 692 1234
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