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The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled and structured list of concepts used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication and information. Continuously enriched and updated, its multidisciplinary terminology reflects the evolution of UNESCO's programmes and activities. The first edition of the Thesaurus was released in English in 1977, with French and Spanish translations in 1983 and 1984. The second revised and restructured version was released in 1995. Today the Thesaurus is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian (since 2005) and Arabic (since 2020). Concepts are grouped into 7 broad subject areas which are broken down into microthesauri. The UNESCO Thesaurus is compliant with the ISO 25964 standard. For more information on the structure of the thesaurus and its historical background please consult the thesaurus introduction. The UNESCO Thesaurus is mainly used for indexing and searching resources in UNESCO’s document repository. See more...

Initial created on January 1, 1977. For additional information, contact Clement Jonquet (jonquet@lirmm.fr).

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