Web-accessible thesauri

[Cheryl Graunke]

To Ms. Shargorodska and other Web-4-Lib'ers:

For those of you who are interested in thesauri, the Library of Congress 
has a page dedicated to its thesauri at:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/lexico/

Currently, the LEXICO-based LIV thesaurus is not available through this 
page, but it will be soon.

Right now, the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary Thesaurus (LIV) available 
through THOMAS, is created by the staff of the Congressional Research 
Service, is just a series of ASCII text files.  Of course, everyone is 
free to look at the ASCII text files, but they are somewhat outdated and 
not searchable (except individual alphabetical ranges, with the "find" 
command of your browser).

However, within the next week, a SEARCHABLE LIV will be substituted -- it 
is based on Lexico thesaurus software.  Unless your need is pressing, I 
suggest that you wait until next week to get the up-to-date and 
searchable version of LIV.  It will be accessible from the THOMAS Bill 
Summary & Status page: 

http://thomas.loc.gov/d104/d104query.html

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On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, OSHARGORODSKA wrote:
 

> 
>      You might want to look at the LIV Thesaurus at the Library of Congress 
>      at:
>      
>      http://thomas.loc.gov
>      
>      Also, the LCSH is available from the LC, although I use it not through 
>      Netscape, but through a regular telnet session.
>      
>      Olga Shargorodska
>      shargorodska at lrp.glas.apc.org
> 
> 
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> Subject: Web-accessible thesauri
> Author:  burton at tis.llnl.gov
> Originator: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu at GLASNET
> Date:    4/26/96 3:20 AM
> 
> 
> I am trying to identify any Web-based thesauri and would appreciate hearing 
> >from anyone who has experience implementing one or from users who have 
> tried to use them.  
>      
> Hilary Burton
> Library, LLNL
>