ThesaurusManagement
ThesaurusManagement encompasses processes and software that create, maintain, and govern a thesaurus, a structured vocabulary used to tag content, support retrieval, and enable semantic search. A thesaurus encodes terms (preferred and non-preferred) and relationships such as broader, narrower, related, and equivalence relations, with notes describing scope, usage, and applicability. Multilingual labels, synonyms, and historical forms may be included to support localization and historical analysis.
Core components include a term store, a relationship graph, and a metadata schema, plus versioning, change history,
Typical workflows cover term creation, review, approval, publishing, and retired terms with deprecation processes. Audit trails
Interoperability and standards: ISO 25964 and SKOS provide guidance for interoperability, while mappings to ontologies and
Applications and benefits: ThesaurusManagement supports libraries, digital repositories, enterprise search, content management, and e-commerce by improving
Related concepts include controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, metadata, and search optimization.