Relaunch des Standard-Thesaurus Wirtschaft - Dynamik in der Wissensrepräsentation

Abstract

After more than 15 years of permanent updating, STW Thesaurus for Economics has been completely revised during the last few years, subject by subject. Eventually, the result was published as version 9.0 in the summer of 2015. In the end, more than 750 thesaurus concepts had been added, and nearly 1100 (out of ca. 6000) concepts had been eliminated. In addition, entry terms have been adapted and the systematic structure has been improved. Against this background, the authors give a description how radical subject domain changes are reflected in thesaurus vocabulary, which requirements have to be met by thesaurus maintenance software, and how changes of vocabulary can be published and be held available as Linked Data.