1. ENVIRONMENTAL MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS Environmental Thesaurus/Terminology Workshop UN Environment Programme Regional Office of Europe International Environment House Geneve, 14-15 April 2004 Carmen Casal Fornos. Ministry of the Environment. Spain carmen.casal@mma.es Arantza López de Sosoaga Torija. SABINI Consulting. Spain asosoaga@sabini.com

2. 2 4 1981-1982: Glossary and Multilingual Thesaurus of Territorial Planning, Urban Development and Environment 4 1984-1989: The thesaurus was checked and reviewed in the Library of the Directorate General for Environment (Presentation similar to EUROVOC. Added a KOWC Index) 4 1990: The first review was published on paper and diskette 4 1995: 2nd. review. Published on CD/ROM (2.799 descriptors, 679 non descriptors, 2.622 relations) BACKGROUND

3. 3 3rd. REVISION: Project 2004-2005 4 TOTAL REVISION OF TERMS 4 TRANSLATIONS INTO OTHER OFFICIAL SPANISH LANGUAGES: BASQUE/CATALAN/GALICIAN/ VALENCIAN

4. 4 CHARACTERISTCS 4 Originally it was a theoretical terminological work 4 Aftherwards it became a documentation tool 4 From that moment its utility is based on its use as a tool for the environmental information indexing and retrieval in Libraries and Documentation Centres

5. 5 4 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 4 SETTLEMENTS 4 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 4 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 4 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 4 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 4 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT 4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MAIN SUBJECT CATEGORIES (Microthesaurus List) CONTENT

6. 6 4 ACCEPTED DESCRIPTORS 4 NON-ACCEPTED DESCRIPTORS (UF) 4 SEMANTIC RELATIONS (TT, BT, NT, RT, USE) TERMS

7. 7 4 CREATION AND MODIFICATION OF TERMS 4 ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN TERMS 4 TRANSLATION OF TERMS 4 MULTILINGUAL THESAURUS MANAGEMENT 4 INTEGRATION OF OTHER THESAURI 4 CREATION OF A CANDIDATES LIST FOR DESCRIPTORS 4 AUTOMATIC CHANGES OF THE DATA BASES INDIZATION FUNTIONS OF SOFTWARE SABINI CONSULTING

8. 8 USE EXPERIENCE 4 Environmental Documentation Centre and General Library. Ministry for Environment. Spain 4 Several Libraries and Documentation Centres of Environmental Regional Governments. Spain  Solicited by several Latin American Centres

9. 9 Multilingual Microthesauri List: Example

10. 10 Hierarchical List: Example

11. 11 Alphabetical Multilingual List: Example

12. 12 PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL THESAURI 4 Review of Infoterra Thesaurus. 1989 (Moscow and Madrid) 4 Translation of Milieu Thesaurus (NBOI) into Spanish 4 GEMET of the EEA