Resources
Resources: Software
Single-user desktop thesaurus/taxonomy construction software
These tools aid in the manual creation of thesauri, according to published standards, ISO 2788, BS 8732, and ANSI/NISO Z39.19. As hierarchical taxonomies do have as strict requirements as thesauri, these tools are also suitable for creating taxonomies.
- MultiTes Pro - from Multisystems (Miami, Florida)
Single-user price: US$295 - Protégé - a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework supported by the National Library of Medicine
- Term Tree 2000 - from This to That Pty. Ltd. t/a A.C.S. Active Classification Solutions (Australia)
Singe-user price: AU$800 (approximately US$700) - Thesaurus Master - from DataHarmony by Access Innovations, Inc.
Single user price: US$3,000 - The W32 - from Timothy Craven, freeware
- Webchoir TCS-10 - from Webchoir Inc. (Los Angeles, California)
Single-user price: US$399
Lists of software compiled by others
- American Society for Indexing: Thesaurus management software
- Fachhochschule Köln: Thesaurus management software
- Willpower Information: Software for building and editing thesauri
Reviews of thesaurus software
- "Comparative evaluation of thesaurus creation software," by Heather Hedden in The Indexer, Vol. 26, No. 21, June 2008.
- "Thesaurus Construction Software Parts 1 and 2," by Glenda Brown. First published in Online Currents - Vol 19 Issues 3-4, Apr-May 2004
- Taxonomy Trifecta, By Timothy Godfrey. Web site reviewing three thesaurus products.