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Standards and Guidelines for Terminology Development

Aitchison, J. and Gilchrist, A. Thesaurus Construction: a Practical Manual. 2nd ed. London: Aslib. 1987.

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. Edited by M. Gorman and P. W. Winkler. 2nd ed. 1988 revision. London: Library Association 1988.

British Standards Institution. BS 6723:1985. Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri. London: BSI, 1985.

British Standards Institution. BS 8723-1:2005. Structured vocabularies for information retrieval - Guide - Part 1: Definitions, symbols and abbreviations. London: BSI 2005.

British Standards Institution. BS 8723-2:2005. Structured vocabularies for information retrieval - Guide - Part 2: Thesauri. London: BSI 2005.

Delroy, S. Object Name and Related Standards. CHIN, 1994.

Holm, S. and MDA Terminology Working Group Guidelines for Constructing a Museum Object Name Thesaurus. Cambridge: MDA, 1993. Available here

International Organization for Standardization. ISO 5964-1985. Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri. Geneva: ISO, 1985.

International Organization for Standardization. ISO 2788-1986. Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of monolingual thesauri. Geneva: ISO, 1986.

International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 3rd ed. London: ITZN with the British Museum (Natural History), 1985.

Lancaster, F.W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval. 2nd ed. Arlington, Virginia: Information Resources Press, 1986.

Museum Documentation Association. Terminology Working Group Conventions for Recording Place Names. (MDA Occasional Paper, 16.) Cambridge: MDA, 1991.

Orna, E. Build Yourself a Thesaurus. A step by step guide. Norwich: Running Angel, 1983.