The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus in 2003 Presenter: Allison Kingscote ACOC Seminar Wesley Centre, Sydney 25 July 2003

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The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus in
2003Presenter Allison KingscoteACOC Seminar
Wesley Centre, Sydney25 July 2003
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The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus

• Introduction
• Background
• Operational management structure
• Day-to-day operations
• Future directions and access issues

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Introduction

• APT is an online hierarchical thesaurus of
  specifically Australian subject terms
• Intended for indexing images and original
  materials in libraries, archives, museums
• Uses contemporary Australian words phrases
• Free
• Terms arranged hierarchically
• Users can suggest new terms

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Background

• Australian collections required a thesaurus of
  indexing terms of Australian terminology
• CASL (Council of Australian State Libraries)
  committed funding to development of an Australian
  thesaurus
• APT evolved from PICMAN database

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Operational management structure
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Day to day operations

• Assessing proposed new terms for inclusion
• Communication with users
• Review of thesaurus hierarchy web content
• Software upgrades/testing
• Alert to new developments

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Future directions and access issues

• APT to become national standard
• Number of users is growing steadily
• Thesaurus purpose
• APT enhancing access to information
• APT increasing the value of metadata

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APT subject headings used

• awnings
• barbecues
• beer
• caravan parks
• caravans
• chairs
• country life