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CLASSIFICATION (General)

Canadian Subject Headings (NLC)
Definition of Thesauri and Classification as Indexing Tools
Dewey Decimal Classification System
MARC21 Concise Format for Classification Data
Medical Subject Headings (MESH)
Moy's Classification Scheme (Legal)
National Library of Medicine Classification
Spanish Subject Headings
Superintendent of Documents Classification Scheme
United States Goverment Patent Classification
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
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CLASSIFICATION WEB (LC)

Classification Web - Library of Congress - Click on local login 
Hierarchy Classification Browser
LC Class Number Browser
LC Classification Outline
LC Class/Subject Correlations Search
LC Subject Search
Quick Start Tutorial
Search
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CUTTER NUMBERS

Chart for Cataloging to Loctions as Appropriate "AA" (UMass)
Geographic Cutter Table for U.S. State and Regions
LC Cutter Tables - Basic, P Class, Biog., & Translation Tables
Regions and Countries Cutter Table -
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INDEXING

American Society of Indexers
Digital Libraries - Automatic Indexing
Indexing Local Newspapers
Swish-E (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced) - Also see the related article "How to Index Anything" by Josh Rabinowitz to learn how to use this free download
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

FAQ about LC Class. No's. in BIBCO records
LC Classification: Subclass KBP (Islamic Law) - Available now from Cataloger's Desktop or Classification Web online
Library of Congress Classification in a New Setting: Beyond Shelfmarks - by Dr. Lois Mai Chan
Library of Congress Thesauri - TGMI (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms), TGMII (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristics Terms, LIV (Legislative Indexing vocabulary), and GLIN (Thesaurus for the Global Legal Information Network)
Program for Cooperative Cataloging Standing Committee on Automation Task Group on Automated Classification Report - Approved by the SCA 1/2001
Subject Cataloging Manual - Classification
Subject Headings Weekly Lists (LCSH)
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METADATA

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Homepage
Dublin Core Qualifiers
Metadata and CORC: Organizing the World of Online Resources - From a NELINET conference held 11/2/2000 in Worcester, MA. 
Using Dublin Core - By Diane Hillman, 4/12/01
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THESAURI

Art and Architecture Thesaurus
BUBL Thesauri
Building Crosswalks for Subject Access in Library Catalogues
Controlled Vocabularies, Thesauri and Classification Systems available in the WWW - By Traugott Koch
Classification Themes and Thesauri Online
Cook's Thesaurus
Developing the Next Generation of Standards for Controlled Vocabularies and Thesauri (NISO)
ERIC Thesaurus
FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
HASSET: Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus
Hierarchically Classifying Documents Using Very Few Words
High Performance Digital Library Classification Systems - By Jane G. Zou
Introduction to Thesauri, ISO-2788 Standard
Lexical FreeNet (Connected Thesaurus)
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus
Migrating Thesauri to the Semantic Web
Open Directory: Reference: Thesauri: Specialized
ProQuest Controlled Vocabulary of Subject Terms
Publications on Thesaurus Construction and Use
RhymeZone
Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
Roget's Internet Thesaurus
Roget's II: the New Thesaurus
Taxonomies: What are They?
Taxonomy Warehouse
Thesauri & Controlled Vocabularies (National Library of Canada)
Thesauri Online
Thesaurus of Musical Instruments
Thesaurus Construction Tutorial - Discusses hierarchical relations, semantic relations, preferred terms and non-preferred terms, related and relevant terms, and much more
UNBIS Thesaurus (Dag Hammarskjold Library)
Union List of Artist Names
Web Thesaurus Compendium
WordNet 1.7.1 - a Lexical Database for English
Words of Art
Wordsmyth: the Educational Dictionary Thesaurus
WWWebster Collegiate Thesaurus
Yahoo! Roget's II Thesaurus
ZING! Z39.50 International: Next Generation
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