| Country of submitter | Italy |
| Name of the vocabulary | ThIST (Italian Thesaurus of Earth Sciences) |
| Name of the owner of the vocabulary | APAT / Angela Carusone, Luca Olivetta |
| Email of the owner | angela.carusone [at] apat.it; lucoliv@libero.it |
| Phone of the owner | +39.06.44442880 |
| Fax of the owner | +39.06.44442216 |
| Contributors (people and/or organizations) | APAT (Agenzia per la protezione dell\'ambiente e per i servizi tecnici = Agency for the environmental protection and technical services
Angela Carusone (librarian, APAT Library) Luca Olivetta (geologist, indexer) |
| Official language of the vocabulary | italian |
| Second languages of vocabulary | english, |
| Type of the vocabulary | Thesaurus, |
| Coverage of the vocabulary | Earth Sciences |
| If the vocabulary is a simple and small list of terms |
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| Version | First |
| Publishing date of this version of the vocabulary | printed by dec. 2004 |
| Updating frequency | |
| How many terms (lexical units) contains this vocabulary? | Between 5001 and 10000 |
| Which thesaurus features are supported? | Narrower term / Broader term ; Related term (or 'See also') ; Use/Used for (or 'See') ; Top term ; |
| How is the controlled vocabulary available? | Through the Internet |
| URL of the vocabulary | opac.apat.it |
| Specific context | Library, Archive, geologists, geological organizations, etc. |
| Technical or other requirements for using the vocabulary | |
| Intellectual property rights and conditions of use | Free to distribute unaltered Free to use the vocabulary browsing tools (if applicable) A reference to the copyright owner is required |
| Costs for obtaining or using the vocabulary | free distribution once published in CDRom and printed copies |
| Which thesaurus or other vocabulary standards are followed | ISO 2788/1986 |
| Standardization bodies that are endorsing this vocabulary | It results from an integration between the terminological database which the Library has built up in several years of indexing work, and the thesaurus published by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in 1997.
It is also strictly connected to the Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences (MTG), prepared by an international working group of the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI), where Italy is represented by APAT. |
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