BS 5723:1987

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Guide to establishment and development of monolingual thesauri

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

01-11-2005

Language(s)

English

Published date

30-09-1987

Publisher

British Standards Institution

National foreword
Committees responsible
Guide
0 Introduction
1 Scope and field of application
2 References
3 Definitions
4 Abbreviations and symbols
5 Vocabulary control
6 Indexing terms
7 Compound terms
8 Basic relationships in a thesaurus
9 Display of terms and their relationships
10 Management aspects of thesaurus construction
Annex
Symbolization of thesaural relationships
Table
Symbols
Figures
1 Alphabetical display
2a) Systematic display
2b) Alphabetical index to systematic display
3a) Tree structure
3b) Alphabetical index to tree structure
4a) Arrowgraph
4b) Alphabetical index to arrowgraph

Contents, layout, methods of construction and maintenance of a monolingual thesaurus covering terms which constitute the working vocabulary of an indexing agency that employs human indexers to analyse the subject content of documents.

Committee	IDT/2/18
DevelopmentNote	Also numbered as ISO 2788 Supersedes 84/62750 DC and BS 5723(1979) (08/2005)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	36
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Superseded
SupersededBy	BS 8723-1:2005 BS 8723-2:2005
Supersedes	BS 5723:1979

BS 6723:1985	Guide to establishment and development of multilingual thesauri
ISO 5963:1985	Documentation — Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, and selecting indexing terms