A space for documenting the taxonomies and vocabularies the project is interested in working with. Please add details of resources you come across, including lists of terms that have been identified as part of investigations throughout the project.

Taxonomy - structured terms with hierarchical relationships

Thesaurus - taxonomy with additional information about preferred terms

Gazetteer - geographical index or dictionary

Ontology - terms and concepts with defined relationships between them

Ontologies

Terminology - controlled list of terms relating to a field or theme

Authority files - controlled records used to describe entities and link to other records. Often in GLAM data you’ll find people, persons and organisations as authority files within their cataloguing and collections management systems.

List - lists of terms that feature in a catalogue, or than have been generated from an investigation