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Aitchison, Jean, Alan Gilchrist and David Bawden. (2000). Thesaurus construction and use: a practical manual 4th ed. London: Europa Publications.

Anderson, James D. (1997). Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices: A Technical Report. NISO Technical Report 2. Bethesda, Md.: National Information Standards Organization (NISO).
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Australia. New South Wales. State Recordkeeping. (2000). Contemporary Recordkeeping: The Records Management Thesaurus - Response.
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Batty, David. (1989). Thesaurus construction and maintenance: a survival kit. Database, 12:1, 13-20.

Batty, David. (1998). WWW - Wealth, Weariness or Waste: Controlled vocabulary and thesauri in support of online information access. D-Lib Magazine. (November).
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Bertrand-Gastaldy, Suzanne and Gracia Pagola. (2001). L'analyse du contenu textuel en vue de la construction de thésaurus et de l'indexation assistée par ordinateur: applications possibles avec SATO (système d'analyse de textes par ordinateur). ATO, Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Blocks, Dorothee, Daniel Cunliffe and Douglas Tudhope. (2006). A reference model for user-system interaction in thesaurus-based searching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57(12):1655-1665.

Broughton, Vanda. (2006). Essential thesaurus construction. London: Facet.

Brown, Fred. (1998). Vocabulary Links:// Thesaurus Design for Information Systems - seminar by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg.
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Busch, Joseph A. (1999). From Authority Files to Ontologies: Knowledge Management in a Networked Environment. (PowerPoint File, 298 KB). In: Presentations from the Subject Analysis and Retrieval Working Group Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 29, 1999. (CENDI Conference).
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Chan, Lois May. (2000). Exploiting LCSH, LCC, and DDC To Retrieve Networked Resources: Issues and Challenges. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
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Craig, Anne and Suzanne Schriar. (2001). The Find-It Illinois controlled vocabulary: improving access to government information through the Jessica subject tree. Government Information Quarterly. 18(3). 195-208.

Cranefield, Stephen. (2001). Networked Knowledge Representation and Exchange Using UML and RDF. Journal of Digital Information. 1(8)
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Craven, T. (2001). Thesaurus Construction. London, Ont.: University of Western Ontario.
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Cross, Phil, Dan Brickley and Traugott Koch. (2000). Conceptual relationships for encoding thesauri, classification systems and organised metadata collections and a proposal for encoding a core set of thesaurus relationships using an RDF Schema.
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Dextre Clarke, Stella. (2001). Scoping study for a pan-government thesaurus : Final report. UK. Office of the e-Envoy. 1-19.

Dextre Clarke, Stella. (2000). Thesauri, topics, and other structures in knowledge management software. In: Beghtol, Clare; Howarth, Lynne C., and Williamson, Nancy J., eds. Dynamism and stability in knowledge organizations: Proceedings of the sixth international ISKO conference, 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada. Würzburgh, Germany: Ergon; 2000: 41-47. Pages. (Advances in knowledge organization. V.7). ISBN: 3-933563-60-7.

Doerr, Martin. (2001). Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping. Journal of Digital Information. 1(8)
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Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy Center for Natural Language Processing School of Information Studies Syracuse University. (1998). Whither come the words? (PowerPoint File, 116 KB). In: Presentations from the Subject Analysis and Retrieval Working Group Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 29, 1999. (CENDI Conference).
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Fitzwater, Larry and Linda Spencer. (1999). EPA Terminology Reference System (TRS). (PowerPoint File, 533 KB). In: Presentations from the Subject Analysis and Retrieval Working Group Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 29, 1999. (CENDI Conference).
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Ganzmann, Jochen. (1990). Check-list for thesaurus software. International Classification 1990 17(3/4):155-157.
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Ganzmann, Jochen. (1990). Criteria for the evaluation of thesaurus software. International Classification, 17(3/4):148-157.
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Gilchrist, Alan. (1994). Classification and thesauri. In: Vickery, B. (ed.). Fifty Years of Information Progress: a Journal of Documentation Review. London: ASLIB. 85-118.

Gilchrist, Alan. (2003). Thesauri, taxonomies and ontologies : an etymological note. Journal of documentation. 59(1):7-18.

Greenberg, Jane. (2004). User Comprehension and Searching with Information Retrieval Thesauri. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 37(3/4):103-120.
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Harpring, Patricia. (1999). Indexing with the Getty Vocabularies. (PowerPoint File, 980 KB). In: Presentations from the Subject Analysis and Retrieval Working Group Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 29, 1999. (CENDI Conference).
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Hart, Quin J. (1999). The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project, (Project Web Site). In: Presentations from the Subject Analysis and Retrieval Working Group Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 29, 1999. (CENDI Conference).
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High-Level Thesaurus Project.
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Hudon, Michèle. (1998). Compatibility and identity are not synonyms : conceptual structures in multilingual thesauri. Knowledge Organization. 25(4). 152-155.

Hudon, Michèle. (1997). Multilingual thesaurus construction: integrating the views of different cultures in one gateway to knowledge and concepts. Knowledge organization. 24(2), 84-91.

Hudon, Michèle. (2001). Relationships in multilingual thesauri. In Relationships in the organization of knowledge. 67-80.

Hudon, Michèle. (2003). True and tested products: thesauri on the Web. The indexer. 23(3):115-119.

Hunter, Jane (2001). MetaNet - A Metadata Term Thesaurus to Enable Semantic Interoperability Between Metadata Domains. Journal of Digital Information. 1(8)
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International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (1986). ISO 2788:1986 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri. 2nd. ed. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (1985). ISO 5964:1985 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization.

Johnson, Eric H. and Pauline A. Cochrane. (1995). A hypertextual interface for a searcher's thesaurus. In: Digital Libraries '95: The Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, June 11-13, 1995 - Austin, Texas.
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Koch, Traugott. (2000). Quality-controlled subject gateways: definitions, typologies, empirical overview. Online Information Review. 24(1): 24-34.
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Lambe, Patrick. (2007). Organising knowledge : taxonomies, knowledge and organisational effectiveness. Oxford : Chandos.

Larivière, Louise. (1996). Conception et réalisation d'un nouveau répertoire terminologique et documentaire unifié: le terminaire ou thésaurus TERMDOC des documents professionnels de correspondance. Université de Montréal.
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Lefèvre, Philippe. (2000). La recherche d'informations: du texte intégral au thésaurus. Paris: Hermès Science.

McCulloch, Emma. (2005). Thesauri: practical guidance for construction. Library review. 54(7):403-409.

Maple, Amanda. (1995). Faceted access: a review of the literature.
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Mertes, K. (2000). Standards for electronic thesauri : report to the ASI Board on the joint workshop sponsored by NISO, ASI, and ALCTS. Key Words, 8:26.

Miller, Ken and Brian Matthews (2001). Having the Right Connections: the LIMBER Project. Journal of Digital Information. 1(8)
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Miller, Paul. (2000). I say what I mean, but do I mean what I say? Ariadne. 23: Mar. 22.
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Milstead, Jessica L. (2000). About Thesauri.
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Milstead, Jessica L. (1999). ASIS Thesaurus of information science and librarianship. 2nd. ed. American Society for Information Science.

Milstead, Jessica L. (1998). NISO Z39.19: Standard for Structure and Organization of Information Retrieval Thesauri: paper presented at the Taxonomic Authority Files Workshop, Washington, DC, June 23, 1998.
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Milstead, Jessica L. (1999). Report on the Workshop on Electronic Thesauri, November 4-5, 1999. Bethesda, MD : National Information Standards Organization.
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Milstead, Jessica L. (1998). Thesauri in a Full-Text World. In: Cochrane, Pauline Atherton and Johnson, Eric H., Editors. Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources: proceedings of the 1997 Clinic on library applications of data processing. Champaign, IL.: Graduate School Of Library And Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 1998; pp.28-38.

Milstead, Jessica L. (1998). Use of Thesauri in the Full-Text Environment.
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Milstead, Jessica L. and Susan Feldman. (1999). Metadata : cataloguing by any other name. Online, 23(1): 25-31.

Milstead, Jessica L. and Susan Feldman. (1999). Metadata projects and standards. Online, 23(1): 32-40.

Moen, William E. (2001). The metadata approach to accessing government information. Government Information Quarterly. 18(3). 155-165.

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National Archives of Australia. (2003). Developing a Functions Thesaurus: Guidelines for Commonwealth Agencies.
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Saàdani, Lalthoum and Bertrand-Gastaldy, Suzanne. (2000). La représentation dans Internet des connaissances d'un domaine. Documentation et Bibliothèques. 46(1): 27-42.

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