1 / Marja Oksa-Pallasvuo 6/2003 Finnish National Thesaurus YSA Used by libraries, archives, museums, virtual libraries On the web with good search interface terms, UFs Maintained by Helsinki University Library = National Library of Finland National guidelines for monolingual thesaurus (ISO )
2 / Marja Oksa-Pallasvuo 6/2003 Maintenance procedure Users send term suggestions to the maintenance group Maintenance group keeps a list of them Compares suggestions to earlier relevant terms, consults experts, reference books, Internet, Finnish Language Office
3 / Marja Oksa-Pallasvuo 6/2003 Maintenance procedure New terms or changes decided by a meeting of information specialists, 4-5 times a year Changes: not easy since established and used extensively (20 yrs) Maintenance database: new suggestions plus a record of suggestions which have not been included, for later reference
4 / Marja Oksa-Pallasvuo 6/2003 Challenges Two official languages - Swedish version called Allärs Balance between different fields of study Specificity - generality Historical terms New terminology –10 translations for ’empowerment’