MDA launches on-line guide to terminology resources

wordHOARD is MDA's new, on-line guide to terminology resources relevant
to museums. It includes links to a selection of  thesauri,
classification systems and other authority files, many of which can be
accessed free. wordHOARD is accessible from MDA's WWW Home Page at
http://www.open.gov.uk/mdocassn/index.htm.

The first edition of wordHOARD was compiled by Kevin Gosling, then MDA's
Terminology Projects Manager.  MDA intends to develop the site into a
regularly-updated clearing house for news about museum-related
terminology initiatives in the UK and abroad.

MDA also hopes that wordHOARD will demonstrate the potential of the
Internet to deliver information resources of real practical use to the
museum community.  The following, for example, are just some the
resources currently available on-line:

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (by subscription from the Canadian
Heritage Information Network)
Bibliography of Controlled Vocabulary Sources, Art Information Task
Force
Fossil and Recent Brachiopod Genera List, Smithsonian Institution
Gazetteer of [UK] Place Names , Ordnance Survey
Guidelines for constructing a museum object name thesaurus, Stuart Holm
and the MDA Terminology Working Group
Index Nominen Genericorum (ING), Smithsonian Institution
Mammal Species of the World , Smithsonian Institution
Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus, IAE/CIPEG
NASA Thesaurus
SPECIES 2000 Name Locator
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I), Library of
Congress
World List of Insect Families, Smithsonian Institution
WWW-version of the ICONCLASS Browser
Vascular Plant Families and Genera , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
THESAURI database, European Commission DG XIII

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