Australian Pictorial Thesaurus
 

Indexing tools

The tools listed on this page are useful for indexing pictorial and heritage collections.

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Thesaurus
    Compiled by Heather Moorcroft and Alana Garwood
    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1997
    ISBN 0646305832

    The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Thesaurus is an aid for library workers and library users. The thesaurus provides guidance to the appropriate terminology to input, and for the users of libraries to aid in searching library catalogues, using the appropriate terminology to gain maximum results for their search.

  • APAIS thesaurus : a list of subject terms used in APAIS : Australian Public Affairs Information Service
    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2000
    ISBN 0642107211

    A list of the subject terms used in the Australian Public Affairs Information Service. The Thesaurus lists the controlled vocabulary of subject terms used to index articles for APAIS.

  • Art & Architecture Thesaurus On Line

    This site provides free access to the Art & Architecture Thesaurus. The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials.

  • Geoscience Australia: Place Name Search

    The Gazetteer of Australia 2002, which is a compilation of over 297,000 geographic names in Australia, is provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia.

  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

    This site provides free access to the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names that contains around 1,000,000 names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations. The emphasis in TGN is on places important for art and architecture.

  • The ICONCLASS Home Page

    This site provides access to ICONCLASS an iconographic classification system. This system is a collection of ready-made definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas, that can be the subject of a work of art. The system contains approximately 24,000 definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas.

  • LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) via the Library of Congress Online Catalog

    This site provides a database of approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections. The Online Catalog also provides references, notes, circulation status, and information about materials still in the acquisitions stage. Use the subject browse facility for Library of Congress Subject Headings.

  • LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGMI)

    This site provides a thesaurus consisting of over 6,300 terms for indexing visual materials, as well as numerous cross references.

  • LC Thesaurus For Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGMII)

    This site is a companion to LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGMI. It contains a thesaurus of over 600 terms that were developed by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, with input from other archival image repositories.

  • Library of Congress Classification Outline

    This site provides a listing of the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. A breakdown of the subclasses is also available.

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists

    This site provides weekly lists of new and changed subject headings that are posted on the Cataloging Policy and Support Office web site as they are approved.

  • National Monuments Record Thesauri

    This site provides a continually developing new thesauri to provide structure and guidelines for the standardisation of terms to be used when creating new records.

Other Resources:

  • Australian Historic Records Register Thesaurus
    Canberra : National Library of Australia, c1996
    ISBN 064210672X

  • The Australian Historic Records Register Thesaurus provides a comprehensive list of subject descriptors that have been designed to cater for the needs of the Australian cataloguer, indexer or archivist.

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings
    Prepared by the Cataloging Policy and Support office, Collections Services.
    17th ed.
    Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 1994

  • Macquarie Dictionary
    4th edition
    C. Yallop et al (ed.)
    Macquarie University, North Ryde: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd., 2005
    ISBN 1876429143

    Australia's national dictionary, containing distinctively Australian English terms, Australian regionalisms and a broad coverage of Aboriginal English. Over 200,000 definitions.

  • Powerhouse Museum Collection Thesaurus
    Edited by Judith Coombes
    1st ed.
    Sydney : Powerhouse Publishing, 1995-
    ISBN 186317060X (set)

    This publication contains over 5,000 entries to assist in documenting and retrieving information about your collection.
 
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