VEST Registry. Vocabularies
All the vocabularies in the VEST Registry are classified by type and subject domain. Most of the Vocabularies are related to indexing. The purpose of indexing is to facilitate the search and finding of the content in a collection by the use of controlled/code lists, authority files or controlled subject vocabularies. The indexing ensures that the content will be found by users when they search specifically in information management systems. There are different type of vocabularies like authority files, classification systems, concept maps, controlled lists, ontologies, taxonomies or subject headings. But under the concept Vocabularies you can find as well dictionaries, encyclopedies, glossaries, lexical databases or topic trees.
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117 results by VocabularyGreen Dictionary on the Internet
"The Green Dictionary - on the Internet" contains about 25,000 entries. It is compiled with a wide range of potential users in mind: students, farmers, gardeners, scientists, advisers, politicians, employees in governmental agencies, translators and naturalists.
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GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
In GRIN Taxonomy all families and genera of vascular plants and over 40,000 species from throughout the world are represented, especially economic plants and their relatives. Information on scientific and common names, classification, distribution, references, and economic impacts are provided.
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Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms
Allows to: search the database, search genetic terms by picking from an alphabetical list of terms, search for the newest terms of the database.
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ILDIS World Database of Legumes
ILDIS is an international project which maintains a database of plants in the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae) and provides services to scientists and other people interested in these plants, including this web-site for access to the database.
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ILO thesaurus
The ILO Thesaurus is a compilation of more than 4000 terms relating to the world of work. Every term is presented in English, French, and Spanish. Many of the terms are followed by definitions or explanatory notes.
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System
The ITIS includes documented taxonomic information of flora and fauna from both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. It contains information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. For each scientific name, ITIS includes the authority (author and date), taxonomic rank, associated synonyms and vernacular names where available, a unique taxonomic serial number, data source information (publications, experts, etc.) and data quality indicators.
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Inter-Active Terminology for Europe
IATE is a multilingual terminology database covering agriculture, telecommunications, transport, legislation, finance etc. related to EU policy. It is constantly updated.
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International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Electronic version of the original English text. Adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress. Vienna, Austria, July 2005
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IRRI Rice Thesaurus
The online publication of the IRRI Rice Thesaurus is the product of a cooperative agreement between IRRI and the National Agricultural Library (NAL), Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. The IRRI Library provides the content while NAL enables web access utilizing servers located in Beltsville, Maryland. This collaboration was made possible via the initiative of Ms. Lori Finch, Thesaurus coordinator, NAL and Mila Ramos, IRRI Chief Librarian.
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ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms
The present version of the ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms is a continuation of the Internet usage and is intended to demonstrate the versatility of the information gathered, as well as providing a means for correcting and expanding the translations provided here with the help of the users. This Glossary witnesses ISI's strong commitment to the improvement of statistics and statistical sciences in developing countries.
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ISO 3166 code lists
Code lists extracted from ISO 3166-1 containing all short country names and alpha-2 code elements officially published by ISO. Updated whenever a change of country name and/or alpha-2 code element is made in ISO 3166-1.
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JITA Classification System of Library and Information Science
JITA is a classification schema of Library and Information Science (LIS). It is used by E-LIS, an international open repository for scientific papers in Library and Information Science, for indexing and searching. Currently JITA is available in English and has been translated into 14 languages (tr, el, nl, cs, fr, it, ro, ca, pt, pl, es, ar, sv, ru). JITA is also accessible as Linked Open Data, containing 3500 triples.
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Land cover and land use Terminology for integrated resources planning and management
with AGL input.
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Language Code Ontology
The ontology contains langauges and their mappings to ISO 639 -1 and ISO 639-2 codes.
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Langual Thesaurus - International Framework for Food Description
Multilingual Thesauri system using facetted classificaitonl;
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Les Mots de l’ Eau
This glossary provides a tool of consultation on water and water related terms.
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Library of Congress Authorities
The Library of Congress Authorities allows to search, view, browse and save approximately: 265,000 subject authority records; 5.3 million name authority records (ca. 3.8 million personal, 900,000 corporate, 120,000 meeting, and 90,000 geographic names); 350,000 series and uniform title authority records; and 340,000 name/title authority records. Associated references and scope notes are also provided.
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MeSH - Medical Subject Headings
MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. MeSH descriptors are arranged in both an alphabetic and a hierarchical structure. At the most general level of the hierarchical structure are very broad headings such as "Anatomy" or "Mental Disorders." More specific headings are found at more narrow levels of the twelve-level hierarchy, such as "Ankle" and "Conduct Disorder." There are 26,142 descriptors in 2011 MeSH. There are also over 177,000 entry terms that assist in finding the most appropriate MeSH Heading, for example, "Vitamin C" is an entry term to "Ascorbic Acid." In addition to these headings, there are more than 199,000 headings called Supplementary Concept Records (formerly Supplementary Chemical Records) within a separate thesaurus.
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Multilingual Glossary of Forest Genetic Resources
A result of a cooperation programme between the FAO Forestry Department and the IUFRO SilvaVoc Terminology Project. Available in English, French, Spanish and German.
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Multilingual Land Tenure Thesaurus
The thesaurus is not exhaustive. Land tenure is a vast theme, interdisciplinary in nature, which encompasses various topics, including law, geography, agronomy, sociology, economy and marketing.
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Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
The names of economic plants and their relatives. 70 most spoken languages in the world, 25 scripts
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National Agricultural Library Thesaurus
An online vocabulary to search for agricultural and biological terms. The Thesaurus is organized to help find terms in a specific discipline or subject area.
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Network of Fisheries Ontologies
The network of fisheries ontologies (OWL/RDF) was created as a part of the NeOn Project. It covers the following areas:
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Open Biomedical Ontologies
Open Biomedical Ontologies is an umbrella web address for well-structured controlled vocabularies for shared use across different biological and medical domains.
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Plant Ontology
A non extensive collection of terms that describe structure and developmental stages of a plant. Arranged in a structured order/network based on the biological concept describing the term's relationship in an ontology tree.
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Plant Pathology
includes picture and pronunciation of the term, mainaintained by Kathie T. Hodge
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Plant Variety Database
Data on plant varieties (botanical name (Latin name), common name, UPOV code and identification; information on its denomination).
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