Web-accessible thesauri

[Thomas Dowling]

By way of clarification, the direct URL for the ARTFL "Roget's Thesaurus"
is http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html  They'll tell
you that they were picked as a PC Magazine Top 100 site, a Magellan 3-Star
site, and a GNN Whole Internet Catalog site.  But they don't provide too
many bibliographic details about the thesaurus itself.

Entries are titled "ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911" so is this in
fact a 1911 thesaurus (with 1991 updates?)?  It's definitely not the "IET
Enhanced Roget's" thesaurus that we're from INSO that we're going to
mount, and which I *believe* is the electronic version of the current
Houghton Mifflin "Roget's II".  Apologies if I've got that wrong--we
haven't received a lot of documentation on it. 

BTW, which kind of thesaurus was the original question about?  :-)



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> From: JHENDERSON
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Web-accessible thesauri
> Date: Friday, April 26, 1996 10:01 AM
> 
> With thesauri you need to be watchful of several things.  First, the
name 
> Roget has gone the way of Webster in entering the public domain, and the
label 
> Roget signifies nothing about the thesaurus's compilers or publisher.
> Because the 1911 Roget's thesaurus is in the public domain, and has
become 
> part of the Gutenberg Project.  If a thesaurus is not otherwise labeled,
there 
> is a good chance that that is the one being used.
> 
> ARTFL Project's ROGET'S Thesaurus 
> (http://home.netscape.com/home/whats-new.html)
> is the thesaurus I have used most often. (But I still prefer a hard copy

> thesaurus.) It is a searchable full text Roget's Thesaurus version 1.02 
> (supplemented: July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA Inc and
the 
> Gutenberg Project [which I think means it is based on the 1911 version].
The 
> interface works well. You can search by keywords in the text or by
headwords.  
> 
> Plenty of other thesauri are available, including several in special
subject 
> areas, and as part of many gopher ready reference sites.  Just try any
of the 
> search engines or link to any of the many library "reference" pages.  
> 
> John Henderson
> Ithaca College Library
> jhenderson at liber.ithaca.edu
> 
> 
>