With the use of thesauri in information retrieval systems on the rise, Shiri (library and information studies, U.

It soon became apparent, however, that this would be just the first step; the terms themselves could be used to form actual hierarchical thesauri. In June 2010 LC announced the creation of the Library of Congress Genre/Form thesaurus, which would be formally separate from LCSH, and published as a supplemental volume to the 32nd edition of LCSH as The Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (or LCGFT).

SKOS is a W3C standard for entering thesauri, taxonomies and classification schemes in an RDF format.

(2007), GenTax: A Generic Methodology for Deriving OWL and RDF-S Ontologies from Hierarchical Classifications, Thesauri, and Inconsistent Taxonomies, in: E.

Next, companies should investigate and incorporate thesauri that best describe their ontology.

Lately, information architects have been fascinated with the possibilities of thesauri for the Web.

Grolier Educational, a multi-reference Web site that links users to encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri, has added three Houghton Mifflin dictionaries and two thesauri to its collection.

Unlike most thesauri, WordWeb can also do inverse part of speech matching: lookup a plural word and WordWeb will show plural synonyms.

Subject-specific thesauri are needed to delineate individual disciplines and thereby to help users move in and among both related and unrelated subjects.

An extensive introduction expounds upon the limits of traditional thesauri, namely that they merely suggest words one already knows and have decided not to use, and lack the agility necessary to group distinct concepts, which nevertheless go together.

Microthesaurus: The convergence of several specialized thesauri (Yancey and Carson 2004)