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What is a thesaurus ?
A thesaurus is the vocabulary of a controlled indexing language
formally organized so that the a priori relationships between concepts
are made explicitPurpose of the HEREIN Thesaurus
The multilingual Thesaurus attached to the HEREIN project intends
to offer a terminological standard for national policies dealing with
architectural and archaeological heritage, as defined in the
Convention of Granada (October 1985) and Valletta (January 1992)Methodology
For each language, the construction of the Thesaurus was based on
the use of the following three basic relationships among terms:
equivalence, hierarchical and associativeStructure of the Thesaurus
Classes Each class forms a structured grouping of
descriptors and non-descriptors around a top termPartners
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