The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project CERES and National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Biological Resources Division (BRD) are collaborating on the development of an Integrated Environmental Thesaurus and Thesaurus Networking Tool Set for Metadata Development and Keyword Searching. Below are links to works in progress and resources for this project.

Project Description

Example Applications:

• Catalog Search Page
• CERES Thematic Directory
• CERES Type Directory

• Open Forum on Metadata Registries January, 2000 Slides
• Goals of the Project
• Transfer Standards
• Client-Server Protocol (slide show)
• Interoperability Between Thesauri
• Overview Documentation
  
• Draft HTTP Client Standard Documentation
  
• Draft RDF Server Standard Documentation
  

Thesauri:

• Legislative Indexing Vocabulary, selected lists
• NASA Global Change Master Directory keyword list
• NASA subject keyword thesaurus
• EPA Terms of Environment : Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
• Library of Congress Thesauri
• Library of Congress Catalog Telnet site
• National PLANTS Database
• Dublin Core Resource Types
• Reference sources for species names
• List of 11 more sources that are off-line

Contributed lists of keywords:
These suggested keywords and hierarchies are being processed for inclusion into the CERES Thematic Thesaurus. If you have a list or know of one we should look at please send it to us.

• Biodiversity Terms from the International Biodiversity Convention
• NPS Natural Resource Bibliography Keywords
• Physical Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• Natural Resources
• Geographic Regions
• Glossary of Plant Pathology Terms
• Resource Types
• Terms from Ecology reference book indexes