BS 8723-2:2005

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Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Guide – Thesauri

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1	BRITISH STANDARD
2	Committees responsible for this British Standard
3	Contents
5	Introduction 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Definitions 4 Symbols, abbreviations and other conventions
6	5 Vocabulary control in a thesaurus 5.1 The fundamental aim of a thesaurus is to guide the indexer and the searcher to choose the same term for the same concept. In… 5.2 Establishing an appropriate preferred term to represent a particular concept is not always straightforward because one conce… 6 Thesaurus terms: scope, form and selection 6.1 Scope of preferred terms
10	6.2 Grammatical form of terms
11	6.3 Capitalization, punctuation and special characters
12	6.4 Singular or plural forms
13	6.5 Selection of the preferred form
18	7 Complex concepts 7.1 General 7.2 The nature of multi-word terms
19	7.3 Deciding whether or not to admit a complex concept
21	7.4 How to split a complex concept
22	7.5 Retention of constituent concepts 7.6 Consistency in the treatment of complex concepts 7.7 Order of words in multi-word terms
23	8 Relationships between terms 8.1 General Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships
24	8.2 The equivalence relationships
27	8.3 The hierarchical relationship
28	Relationship that satisfies the “all-and-some test” Relationship that does not satisfy the “all-and-some test”
31	8.4 The associative relationship
34	8.5 Customized relationships
35	9 Facet analysis
36	Partially expanded classified display of an “industries” class, with node labels indicating a) changes of facet, for example (products) and b) characteristics of division of arrays, for example (milk by source animal)
37	10 Presentation and layout 10.1 General
38	10.2 Single record display 10.3 Alphabetical display
39	Alphabetical display of thesaurus terms (some terms omitted to save space)
40	10.4 Hierarchical display
41	Hierarchical display of thesaurus terms arranged by facets
42	10.5 Classified display
43	Classified display of thesaurus terms arranged by facets within subject fields
44	10.6 Displaying polyhierarchical relationships (see also 8.3.5)
45	Classified display of thesaurus terms arranged by facets within subject fields, with additional information such as SN, UF and RT
46	10.7 Introduction to the thesaurus 11 Thesaurus functions in electronic systems 11.1 If a thesaurus is to be used for information retrieval, it should be capable of integration with the systems in which index… 11.2 For indexing and searching applications, facilities for browsing and searching the thesaurus are fundamental. These should include the following. 11.3 When integrated with a searchable document collection, the displays should also show the number of postings against each pr…
47	11.4 When integrated with an indexing or cataloguing system, the following functions should be provided. 11.5 If the system is for automatic indexing, rather than for human indexers to use, a means of linking each preferred term with the algorithms or rules that drive its selection should also be provided. 12 Management aspects of thesaurus construction 12.1 Planning a thesaurus
49	12.2 Early stages of compilation 12.3 Managing construction
50	Attributes and relationships of a preferred term Attributes and relationships of a non-preferred term
51	Attributes of a node label
53	12.4 Dissemination
54	13 Updating 13.1 General 13.2 Suggestion procedure 13.3 Review procedure
55	13.4 The nature of changes 13.5 Dissemination of updates
56	14 Requirements of thesaurus management software 14.1 General
57	14.2 Size and character limitations 14.3 Inter-term relationships 14.4 Term notes
58	14.5 Codes and notation 14.6 Node labels 14.7 Data import/export
59	14.8 Editorial navigation and support 14.9 Editorial safeguards 14.10 Housekeeping tools

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Status	Withdrawn
Title	Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Guide – Thesauri
Replaces	BS 5723:1987
Publisher	BSI
Committee	IDT/2/18
Pages	64
Publication Date	2005-11-01
Withdrawn Date	2011-09-30
Replaced By	BS ISO 25964-1:2011
ISBN	0 580 46799 6
Standard Number	BS 8723-2:2005
Descriptors	Thesauri, Information handling, Library and information science, Information retrieval, Information transfer, Vocabulary, Filing systems, Indexing, Data processing, Information exchange, Index languages

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