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Art & Architecture Thesaurus
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html A thesaurus of controlled vocabulary for works of or about art and architecture. It covers terminology for fine arts, architecture, decorative art, and material culture of the Western world from antiquity to the present.

Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
http://www.catie.ca/thesaurus.nsf/kwoc HIV/AIDS Treatment Thesaurus

DC Subject. Thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW
http://www.lub.lu.se/metadata/subject-help.html Dublin Core : Subject element. Topic of the resource. Typically the subject will be expressed as keywords or phrases that describe the subject or content of the resource. The use of controlled vocabularies and formal classifications is encouraged. Cf. the creator form at http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmdc.pl

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN : Getty Information Institute)
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html Search the world. Hierachically arranged geographic data that is global in scope. It comprises records for approximately 900,000 places in the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, place types, and other relevant information.

Library of Congress Thesauri
http://lcweb.loc.gov/lexico/ Web versions of four print Library of Congress thesauri. Terms in the thesauri may be search or browsed in alphabetical order.
  1. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)
  2. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II)
  3. Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV)
  4. Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm Searchable English language thesaurus.

Moving Image Genre-Form Guide
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migintro.html Developed and in use by the Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress. Code #2 "migfg". It defines concepts of form and genre separately, but make those definitions operational by providing separate lists of terms. Terms from the lists are combined in a faceted manner.

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
http://www.thesaurus.com/ Immediate searching available from this site.

Thesaurus Construction
http://www.cris.com/~multites/places.htm Resources on thesaurus construction and vocabulary management

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/ Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I).

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/ Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and physical characteristic terms (TGM II) is a thesauris of 600 terms developed by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Using the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
http://lyra.rlg.org/aat.html

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