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ENVIRONMENTAL MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS. Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Workshop UN Environment Programme Regional Office of Europe International Environment House Geneve, 14-15 April 2004 Carmen Casal Fornos . Ministry of the Environment. Spain carmen.casal@mma.es
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ENVIRONMENTAL MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Workshop UN Environment Programme Regional Office of Europe International Environment House Geneve, 14-15 April 2004 Carmen Casal Fornos . Ministry of the Environment. Spain carmen.casal@mma.es Arantza López de Sosoaga Torija. SABINI Consulting. Spain asosoaga@sabini.com
BACKGROUND • 1981-1982: Glossary and Multilingual Thesaurus of Territorial Planning, Urban Development and Environment • 1984-1989: The thesaurus was checked and reviewed in the Library of the Directorate General for Environment (Presentation similar to EUROVOC. Added a KOWC Index) • 1990: The first review was published on paper and diskette • 1995: 2nd. review. Published on CD/ROM (2.799 descriptors, 679 non descriptors, 2.622 relations)
3rd. REVISION: Project 2004-2005 • TOTAL REVISION OF TERMS • TRANSLATIONS INTO OTHER OFFICIAL SPANISH LANGUAGES: BASQUE/CATALAN/GALICIAN/ VALENCIAN
CHARACTERISTCS • Originally it was a theoretical terminological work • Aftherwards it became a documentation tool • From that moment its utility is based on its use as a tool for the environmental information indexing and retrieval in Libraries and Documentation Centres
CONTENT MAIN SUBJECT CATEGORIES (Microthesaurus List) • NATURAL ENVIRONMENT • SETTLEMENTS • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY • ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT • ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY • ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT • SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
TERMS • ACCEPTED DESCRIPTORS • NON-ACCEPTED DESCRIPTORS (UF) • SEMANTIC RELATIONS (TT, BT, NT, RT, USE)
FUNTIONS OF SOFTWARE SABINI CONSULTING • CREATION AND MODIFICATION OF TERMS • ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN TERMS • TRANSLATION OF TERMS • MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS MANAGEMENT • INTEGRATION OF OTHER THESAURI • CREATION OF A CANDIDATES LIST FOR DESCRIPTORS • AUTOMATIC CHANGES OF THE DATA BASES INDIZATION
USE EXPERIENCE • Environmental Documentation Centre and General Library. Ministry for Environment. Spain • Several Libraries and Documentation Centres of Environmental Regional Governments. Spain • Solicited by several Latin American Centres
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL THESAURI • Review of Infoterra Thesaurus. 1989 (Moscow and Madrid) • Translation of Milieu Thesaurus (NBOI) into Spanish • GEMET of the EEA