Terminology Resource Description

Primarily concerned with objects which relate to the inland waterways of the British Isles and establishing relationships between them. Scope:

• Based on object names that are specific to inland waterways (covering canals and rivers but not coastal areas);
• Based chiefly on the British Isles but will cover international scope where appropriate to the nature of the National Inland Waterways Collection;
• Primarily covers terminology from the period of the 'canal age' (Eighteenth Century) onwards;
• Includes regional variations, traditional inland waterways terms and slang, though the preferred terms are those that would be used on an object label;
• Each term warranted by at least one written or oral reference;
• Polyhierarchical and with full scope notes;
• Does include terms that are adequately dealt with by existing thesauri.