Transcript The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus

The Australian Pictorial
Thesaurus in 2003
Presenter: Allison Kingscote
ACOC Seminar
Wesley Centre, Sydney
25 July 2003
The Australian Pictorial
Thesaurus
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Introduction
Background
Operational management structure
Day-to-day operations
Future directions and access issues
Introduction
• APT is an online hierarchical thesaurus of
specifically Australian subject terms
• Intended for indexing images and original
materials in libraries, archives, museums
• Uses contemporary Australian words & phrases
• Free
• Terms arranged hierarchically
• Users can suggest new terms
Background
• Australian collections required a thesaurus
of indexing terms of Australian terminology
• CASL (Council of Australian State
Libraries) committed funding to
development of an Australian thesaurus
• APT evolved from PICMAN database
Operational management
structure
Steering Committee
CASL
Management Committee:
2 CASL nominees
AMOL nominee
Thesaurus Manager (Convenor)
Operational (SLNSW):
Thesaurus Manager
Thesaurus Coordinator
Pictures Curator
Reference Group:
CASL Digital Issues Working Group
Day to day operations:
• Assessing proposed new terms for inclusion
• Communication with users
• Review of thesaurus hierarchy & web
content
• Software upgrades/testing
• Alert to new developments
Future directions and access
issues
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APT to become national standard
Number of users is growing steadily
Thesaurus purpose
APT enhancing access to information
APT increasing the value of metadata
APT subject headings used:
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awnings
barbecues
beer
caravan parks
caravans
chairs
country life