ENVIRONMENTAL MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Workshop UN Environment Programme Regional Office of Europe International Environment House Geneve, April 2004 Carmen Casal Fornos. Ministry of the Environment. Spain Arantza López de Sosoaga Torija. SABINI Consulting. Spain

: Glossary and Multilingual Thesaurus of Territorial Planning, Urban Development and Environment : The thesaurus was checked and reviewed in the Library of the Directorate General for Environment (Presentation similar to EUROVOC. Added a KOWC Index) : The first review was published on paper and diskette : 2nd. review. Published on CD/ROM (2.799 descriptors, 679 non descriptors, relations) BACKGROUND

3 3rd. REVISION: Project TOTAL REVISION OF TERMS 4 TRANSLATIONS INTO OTHER OFFICIAL SPANISH LANGUAGES: BASQUE/CATALAN/GALICIAN/ VALENCIAN

4 CHARACTERISTCS 4 Originally it was a theoretical terminological work 4 Aftherwards it became a documentation tool 4 From that moment its utility is based on its use as a tool for the environmental information indexing and retrieval in Libraries and Documentation Centres

5 4 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 4 SETTLEMENTS 4 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 4 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 4 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 4 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT 4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MAIN SUBJECT CATEGORIES (Microthesaurus List) CONTENT

6 4 ACCEPTED DESCRIPTORS 4 NON-ACCEPTED DESCRIPTORS (UF) 4 SEMANTIC RELATIONS (TT, BT, NT, RT, USE) TERMS

7 4 CREATION AND MODIFICATION OF TERMS 4 ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN TERMS 4 TRANSLATION OF TERMS 4 MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS MANAGEMENT 4 INTEGRATION OF OTHER THESAURI 4 CREATION OF A CANDIDATES LIST FOR DESCRIPTORS 4 AUTOMATIC CHANGES OF THE DATA BASES INDIZATION FUNTIONS OF SOFTWARE SABINI CONSULTING

8 USE EXPERIENCE 4 Environmental Documentation Centre and General Library. Ministry for Environment. Spain 4 Several Libraries and Documentation Centres of Environmental Regional Governments. Spain  Solicited by several Latin American Centres

9 Multilingual Microthesauri List: Example

10 Hierarchical List: Example

11 Alphabetical Multilingual List: Example

12 PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL THESAURI 4 Review of Infoterra Thesaurus (Moscow and Madrid) 4 Translation of Milieu Thesaurus (NBOI) into Spanish 4 GEMET of the EEA