Dictionaries
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ... Auf Veranlassung ..
astronomy thesaurus
A five language thesaurus of astronomy terms
Australian Antarctic gazetteer
Searchable gazetteer of place names approved by the Antarctic Names and Medal Committee. Updated weekly. The Australian Antarctic Territory and Heard Island and the McDonald Islands are available now. Macquarie Island is in preparation
BC Bookworld author bank
Biographical and bibliographical information on BC authors in all genres
BC Geographical Names Information System
Belgium Place Names
Benton County place names
Binding terms a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland
Biographical dictionary of the Netherlands
Birds of East Asia & mainland Southeast Asia glossary of species names in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese
Columbia gazetteer of North America /
Composite gazetteer of Antarctica
"The database contains all the names officially given to Antarctic geographic features by 20 countries, with the addition of the Antarctic undersea features taken from GEBCO. The names included in the database are those south of the 600S parallel ..."--General information screen
Danish place names
Dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms in geographic information systems, cartography, and remote sensing
Dictionary of Aboriginal placenames of Victoria database of Aboriginal placenames of Victoria
dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English /
Dictionnaire historique et critique
A dictionary of biographies of historical persons, originally published in 1697. This electronic version is based on the 1740 Amsterdam edition, and includes full-text searching of the original index
Estonian Place Names
FireTalk
FireTalk is an on-going project at the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library to improve access to fire science information. By means of this thesaurus, all the indexing terms that describe the collection of the IFSI Library can be displayed, aiding patrons who are searching the IFSI Library Web catalog and other fire related databases, such as the USFA National Emergency Training Center and the New York Academy of Fire Science Library
Genre terms a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
Geographical names of Canada
GEOnet names server
Provides access to NIMA's database of foreign geographic feature names. Information in this database has been used to prepare and publish the series of foreign country gazetteers approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names
Georgia place-names
Getty thesaurus of geographic names on line
Contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places. Composed of names and other information contributed by several Getty projects, including the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), the Foundation for Documents of Architecture (FDA), the Getty Center Photo Study Collection (GCPS), and the Getty Information Institutes Vocabulary Program (VP). The TGN is the only available automated geographical resource that is hierarchical, global in scope, and targeted at researchers, catalogers, librarians, and archivists dealing with the history of art and architecture. The logical focus of a TGN record is the "place." Each place has attributes, including names, place types and coordinates. The places are arranged in hierarchies representing the current political and physical world
Glossary of coastal terminology /
"This coastal glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography, and the technologies that characterize, measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone"--Pref
Glossary of Internet Terms
Alphabetic listing of Internet terms
Glossary of lake and water terms
Glossary of library terms
Imperial gazetteer of India
Key names a gazetteer of the islands of the Florida Keys /
Lantmateriet MapSearch and place names
"Lantmateriet is the national place-name authority in Sweden, and thereby has the job of establishing place names, co-ordinate governmental place-name operations and give advice and recommendations concerning place names."
lexicon of cave and karst terminology with special reference to environmental karst hydrology
Leximagne l'empereur des pages dico
Links to nearly 1000 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and wordlists
Lincoln County place names
list of foreign geographical names in Slovene language
Luxembourg gazetteer of villages and towns
Ma'agarim - UW restricted UW restricted
Academy of the Hebrew Language's onlne historical dictionary of Hebrew from the second century BCE through the first half of the eleventh century CE
Milon Morfiks
Online Hebrew-English dictionary
Minnesota place names : a geographical encyclopedia /
moving image genre-form guide
A comprehensive, practical guide to moving image genre and form terminology, covering some 150 terms, all fully defined and exemplified
MSN Encarta dictionaries
"Non-premium version of Microsoft Encarta Dictionaries. Provides access to definitions and pronunciations."
new Palgrave dictionary of economics / - UW restricted UW restricted
New South Wales Government Geographical Names Board
New Zealand geographic placenames database
Newspaper genre list
"The following list is an attempt to standardize terms used to designate genres of newspapers. The perspective and scope of the list reflects types of papers cataloged by members of the United States Newspaper Program ... The intent is for these terms to provide additional access in conjunction with authorized LC subject headings."
Nomenclature Board of Tasmania
Online dictionary of library and information science ODLIS /
A reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and the general reader and library user. The primary criterion for including a new term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to encounter it at some point in his or her career. The technical vocabulary of publishing, printing, book history, and computer science has been included when, in the author's judgment, a definition might prove helpful, not only to library and information professionals, but also to laypersons
Orbis latinus online
Oxford dictionary of national biography : in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000 / - UW restricted UW restricted
Paper terms a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
PhysicalGeography.net. Glossary of terms
Pitcairn Island place names
Place name search [Australia]
"This query searches the Gazetteer of Australia which is a compilation of over 240,000 geographic names of Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia."
Place names database
Contains information on more than 11,000 official names for geographic features (lakes, mountains, rivers, etc.) and populated places in Canada's Northwest Territories
Place names in the Canadian Rockies
PlaceNames online South Australian state gazetteer
Database of place names in South Australia. The general aim of the database is to record any place name that is, or has been used, in South Australia. Associated with each name are up to 38 fields of information relating to feature type, classification, location, derivation, and cross-references to current, previous, and alternative names
Polk County place names
Printing and publishing evidence thesauri for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
Provenance evidence a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
Radio form/genre terms guide
"The following thesaurus of radio form/genre terms offers controlled vocabulary with which to describe various types of radio programs. It reconciles variant terms, establishes relationships between terms, and guides users in the application of terms. It is used for cataloging radio materials in both MARC and non-MARC settings ... The term radio is used throughout this document; but it should be understood that these guidelines apply to the sound from television programs as well as radio programs."
Slovar toponimske terminologije
Terms of environment
Defines in non-technical language the more commonly used environmental terms appearing in EPA publications, news releases, and other EPA documents available to the general public
Thesaurus for graphic materials. I, Subject terms (TGM I)
A thesaurus consisting of over 6,300 terms for indexing visual materials, as well as numerous cross references. New terms are added continuously
Thesaurus for graphic materials. II, Genre & physical characteristic terms (TGM II)
Toponimska navodila za Slovenijo
Topos sur le web : noms et lieux du Quebec
Type evidence a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
VICNAMES
"The Register of Geographic Names, VICNAMES, holds more than 190,000 road and place names including landscape features such as mountains and rivers, bounded localities such as suburbs, towns, cities and regions, and physical infrastructure such as roads, reserves and schools. You are invited to search VICNAMES for all registered place names in Victoria or track the progress of proposed names that have been submitted to the Registrar of Geographic Names for approval."
Virginia gazetteer
"The Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. It is based in large part on data from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) ... The Virginia Gazetteer is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the Geostat Center in the University of Virginia Library. This allows the gazetteer to function like a geographic catalog for the Geostat collections ... At present, no statistical data about features are recorded in the gazetteer."
Washington place names
Searchable database which provides the who, what, when and why about thousands of place names throughout Washington State, including cities and towns, lakes, rivers, streams, mountains, valleys, and glaciers
Zgosceni imenik zemljepisnih imen Slovenije Concise gazetteer of Slovenia


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