Upcoming release of EuroVoc 4.4, EU’s multilingual thesaurus
From the post:
EuroVoc 4.4 will be released on December 18, 2012. During this day, the website might be temporary unavailable.
6.883 thesaurus concepts
This new edition is the result of a thorough revision among other things according to the concepts introduced by the ‘Lisbon Treaty’. It includes 6.883 thesaurus concepts of which 85 concepts are new, 142 have been updated and 28 have been classified as obsolete concepts.
These new concepts are the results of the proposals sent by the librarians from the libraries of the national parliaments in Europe, the European Institutions namely the European Parliament and the users of EuroVoc. All the terms in Portuguese have been revised according to the Portuguese language spelling reform. The prior lexical value remains available as Non-Preferred Terms.
EuroVoc, the EU’s multilingual thesaurus
EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU, the European Parliament in particular. It contains terms in 22 EU languages. It is managed by the Publications Office, which moved forward to ontology-based thesaurus management and semantic web technologies conformant to W3C recommendations as well as latest trends in thesaurus standards.
There are documents prior to this version of the thesaurus and even documents prior to there being a EuroVoc thesaurus at all.
And there will be documents after EuroVoc has been superceded.
Not to mention in between there will be documents that use other vocabularies.
Good thing we have topic maps to use this resource to its best advantage.
A way station in a sea of semantic currents and drifts.