EINIRAS Task Group I: Standardization

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EINIRAS Annual Conference 2008Tallinn, 18-19 September

Task Group 1 Report 2008

European Thesaurus

Additional linguistic versions:

Russian version completed (INION, Moscow)

Greek version in the works (ELIAMEP, Athens)

Task Group 1 Report 2008

European Thesaurus

Online access via IREON Gateway

www.ireon-portal.eu

Launched in November 2007

9 languages (incl. Croatian, Russian)

Display of full semantic relationships

Task Group 1 Report 2008

European Thesaurus

Marketing activities 1.200 brochures distributed Info pages about ET on two websites:

www.fiv-iblk.de/information/thesaurus.htm

www.einiras.org/services/eurothesaurus.cfm Presentations at conferences Wikipedia

Task Group 1 Report 2008

European Thesaurus

Current projects: Review of semantic relationships

European Thesaurus Development Group Two meetings since last conference:

November 2007, April 2008 Minutes of ETDG meetings available at

EINIRAS Google Groups

Task Group 1 Report 2008

European Thesaurus

Current users of the European Thesaurus:

FIV (13 research institutions from Germany and Denmark)

Institute of International Relations, Prague Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw

From autumn 2008: Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris

Task Group 1 Report 2008

RDA

“Resource Description and Access RDA is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. … RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on re-source description and access covering all types of content and media. The new stan-dard is being developed for use primarily in libraries … .” (www.rdaonline.org)