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08 November 2005 I Riina Vuorikari
Thesaurus to facilitate and support multilinguality
European Schoolnet with its members and project partners has long been working in maintaining a thesaurus to facilitate and support multilinguality within the context of European learning resources. A thesaurus is a classified list of terms and concepts, such as a specialised vocabulary of a particular field, as of education, medicine or music.
The ETB Thesaurus was first created in the early 2000 as an outcome of ETB project. It has been used also in Celebrate to index multilingual learning objects. It is continuously also used in European Schoolnet's services, multilingual controlled vocabularies can help to automate part of the translation work for learning resources that have been indexed in one language.
The Thesaurus is now available in 14 languages! A new language in the family is Arabic. The other languages are Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, and Greek. Take your time and see for yourself the value of these vocabularies!
The scope of the ETB thesaurus is:
* Content of multimedia educational materials
* Content of teaching, guidance, evaluation, and administration supporting materials
Read the ETB Thesaurus Legend that explains the relationships in the ETB Thesaurus.
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ETB Thesaurus is in 3 different displays:
1. Alphabetical display
- Classical self-sufficient display of a thesaurus, carrying the whole information on all the thesaurus relationships. Read more about alphabetical display and see some examples!
2. Rotated display
- The descriptors are displayed in alphabetical order as many times as meaningful words are present in a compound term. Read more about rotated display and see some examples!
3. Systematic display
- Systematic display allows a general view of descriptors classified in meaningful conceptual sub-groups, so-called Microthesauri (= MT). Read more about systematic display and see some examples!
All the displays of a language version in .zip
ETB thesaurus includes 25 micro-thesauri:
| Individual development |
Learning / research |
| School activities |
Leisure activities |
| Teaching / training / evaluation / guidance |
Educational system |
| Content of education: 8 sub-groups |
Facilities / equipment / materials : 3 sub-groups |
| Communication / information / document |
Culture |
| Political /social / interpersonal relations |
Health / safety / handicap |
| Environment |
Society |
| International organisations |
Countries and geopolitical areas |
| Languages |
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Keywords: interoperability, languages, standard
Last changed: Tuesday, 08 November 2005
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