Yes, visit our website, and look for wordHoard. It was complied by Kevin
Gosling, MDA Terminology Projects Manager for our September 96
Terminology Workshop. The work is being continued by Matthew Stiff, who
joined MDA earlier this month. I suspect Museum-l will be hearing from
him in due course.


In article <[log in to unmask]>, "Robert A.
Baron" <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Has anyone compiled a list of terminology lists and thesauri?
>
>Such a resource, indexed by area of concern, and including information on
>who maintains each list, when it was last edited, how to obtain it, etc.,
>etc. would be a very useful document, indeed.
>
>No doubt, this would be a massive undertaking, for it would have to include
>lists created for medicine and every other discipline and endeavor, but I
>would imagine, if used properly, such a resource might prove rather useful
>to systems that cross interest areas.  For example a medical thesaurus may
>have a section on instrumentation and tools and equipment that is rather
>more sophisticated and elaborate than that found in Nomenclature.
>
>R.Baron
>mailto:[log in to unmask]

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