a glance at the growth and development of vocabulary control in persian will make it clear that the process can be divided into three distinct stages: 1.  preparation of lists of persian terms selected by documentation centers during the indexing process. 2.  translation into persian of the thesauri available in english and french languages. 3.  compilation of thesauri in persian based on warra...

INTRODUCTION In the present era, thesauri as tools in indexing play an effective role in integrating retrieval preventing fragmentation as well as a multiplicity of terminologies and also in providing information content of documents. GOALS This study aimed to investigate the keywords of articles indexed in IranMedex in terms of origin, structure and indexing situation and their Compliance wi...

establishing order, integrity, consistency, and accuracy in thesauri as information storage and retrieval systems plays an important role in the organization of information. the deployment of universally accepted standards, therefore, facilitates the accomplishment of this goal. to achieve this goal, the ansi /niso z 39.19 -2005 standard offers certain rules and principles for constructing cont...

The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) is a soon-to-be-released digital repository developed by the Studies Institute at University of Fraser Valley, located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. SACDA partners with memory institutions, individuals, families, and organizations to digitize, describe, provide online public access heritage materials created by, or relevant to, diaspor...

Thesauri can be useful resources for indexing and retrieval on the Semantic Web, but often they are not published in RDF/OWL. To convert thesauri to RDF for use in Semantic Web applications and to ensure the quality and utility of the conversion a structured method is required. Moreover, if different thesauri are to be interoperable without complicated mappings, a standard schema for thesauri i...