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CAB Thesaurus

CAB Thesaurus. James Brooks CAB International Environmental Thesaurus / Terminology Workshop UNEP Regional Office of Europe Geneva, Switzerland 14-15 April 2004 j.brooks@cabi.org. CAB International.

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CAB Thesaurus

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  1. CAB Thesaurus James Brooks CAB International Environmental Thesaurus / Terminology Workshop UNEP Regional Office of Europe Geneva, Switzerland 14-15 April 2004 j.brooks@cabi.org

  2. CAB International • A financially self-supporting, international, intergovernmental, not-for-profit organisation • “Generating, validating and delivering knowledge solutions in the applied life sciences” • CABI Bioscience + CABI Publishing • Centres in China, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, UK and USA

  3. CAB Thesaurus (1) • A thesaurus of the Applied Life Sciences • 5 editions since 1983 • English language,+ Spanish and Portuguese • also Dutch version (Wageningen UR Library) • ca 47,500 descriptors and 12,000 entry terms • used to index CAB Abstracts and Global Health databases

  4. Agriculture Animal Health Forestry Soil Science Natural Resource Management Pest Management Rural Sociology Agricultural Economics Public Health Environmental Health Infectious Diseases Human Nutrition Entomology Mycology Parasitology Tourism CAB Thesaurus (2) covers ...

  5. CAB Thesaurus development (1) • Coverage to be expanded: • Aquaculture • Food Science • Invasive Species • Water Resources Management • Systematic revision of e.g. bacteria, viruses, enzymes, soil types, geographical ‘instances’, … • Restructuring of high-level classification • Greater granularity of relationship types

  6. CAB Thesaurus development (2) • New thesaurus database • New thesaurus management system • XML outputs • looking at SKOS RDF-S • Publicly-accessible CAB Thesaurus website to be redesigned • http://www.cabthesaurus.info

  7. Some guiding considerations • User needs and wants • Interoperability • Cost recovery • Sustainability … forward business management • CABI’s strategic direction • Partnership

  8. Participation • With multiple stakeholders: • AOS • GFIS • SEMKOS • In research projects: • SEMTERM • Text Mining • In commercial partnerships: • Publishing / content partners • Technical / KM partners

  9. Sustainability • Infrastructure build should be demand led / user driven • Economic and management issues are important considerations • Do we have the right data models?

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