CENDI Agency Terminology Resources
From the webpage:
The following URLs provide access to the online thesauri and indexing resources of the various federal scientific & technical agencies including CENDI agencies. These resources are of interest to those wishing to know about the scientific and technical terminology used in various fields.
- Agriculture & Food
- Applied Science & Technologies
- Astronomy & Space
- Biology & Nature
- Earth & Ocean Sciences
- Energy & Energy Conservation
- Environment & Environmental Quality
- General Science
- Health & Medicine
- Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
- Science Education
I will post on CENDI but I thought this was important enough to call out separately. Particularly since there are multiple thesauri in some of these categories.
For example:
NAL Agricultural Thesaurus http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt/agt.shtml
The NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT) is annually updated and the 2007 edition contains over 65,800 terms organized into 17 subject categories. NALT is searchable online and is available in several formats (PDF, ASCII text, XML, SKOS) for download from the web site. NALT has standard hierarchical, equivalence and associative relationships and provides scope notes and over 2,400 definitions of terms for clarity. Proposals for new terminology can be sent to thes@nal.usda.gov. Published by the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture.
Tesauro Agrícola http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt_es.shtml
Tesauro Agrícola is the Spanish language translation of the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT). The thesaurus accommodates the complexity of the Spanish language from a Western Hemisphere perspective. First published in May 2007, the thesaurus contains over 15,700 translated concepts and contains definitions for more than 2,400 terms. The thesaurus is searchable with a Spanish interface and is available in several formats (PDF, ASCII text, XML) for download from the web site. Proposals for new terminology can be sent to thes@nal.usda.gov . Published by the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture.