Thesauri

Essential Sources & Background

Inscription – ‘List of Word Lists’ http://www.fish-forum.info/i_lists.htm

Historic England thesaurus and related guidance (contains useful basic information on thesauri) http://thesaurus.historicengland.org.uk/

FISH Forum http://fishforum.weebly.com/

Historic England Data Standards and Terminology (good background information) https://www.historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/information-management/data-standards-terminology/

Scottish Thesaurus of Monument Types http://canmore.org.uk/thesaurus

Technical

CIDOC CRM ‘definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation’http://www.cidoc-crm.org/

Dublin Core metadata Basics http://dublincore.org/metadata-basics/

Disciplinary Metadata http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards

MIDAS Heritage (The UK Historic Environment Data Standard) http://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/midas-heritage/

Seneschal (linked data) http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/about-heritage-data/seneschal/

Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/

Further Information and online thesauri

HEIRNET http://www.archaeologyuk.org/heirnet/

UNESCO Thesaurus http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/

EH Object Type Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.historicengland.org.uk/thesaurus.asp?thes_no=144

British Museum/Collections Trust Object Thesaurus: http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/assets/thesaurus_bmon/Objintro.htm#Introduction

Informing the Future of the Past: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ifp/