1. EuroVoc & Thesaurus Interoperability Un seul thésaurus?
Publications Office - EUR-Lex Unit
Christine LAABOUDI-SPOIDEN
21 November 2012 1

2. EuroVoc & multilingual thesauri
EuroVoc (Publications Office of the EU)
Version 4.4 : concepts
Multilingual (22 EU + HR, SR)
Multidisciplinary thesaurus
EU legislation, EU activities, EU policies
No coverage for “national legal systems”
Website:
Network of multilingual thesauri
EU institutions and agencies, international and national bodies
ISSUES : Access to a unique MetaTHESAURUS ?
Option 1: Translation of existing thesauri
Option 2: Thesaurus integration: merge several thesauri in a new Thesaurus
Option 3: Interoperability and alignments 2

3. Multilingual thesauri network

4. Thesaurus interoperability at the Publications Office
2008: Proposed methodology for thesaurus interoperability
2010 : Development of a Thesaurus Alignment Tool
TAE: Thesaurus Alignment Environment
Automated generation of SKOS mapping
Human validation
2011: Thesaurus Working Group

5. Future thesaurus collaboration
Shared infrastructure for thesaurus management or dissemination
Generic concepts managed in EuroVoc
Specific concepts by the specialised thesauri
Open the EuroVoc website to disseminate other EU thesaurus
Published the alignments to other multilingual resources
Published EuroVoc  Gemet, Agrovoc
Optimize our resources
Infrastructure (TMS, hosting, dissemination)
Thesaurus maintenance and translation
EuroVoc shares 20% of concepts with Gemet and ETT and 40% with ECLAS.