JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources. These holdings comprise a wide range of topics from the humanities to the sciences. There does not exist today one single thesaurus that holds the terms to cover all these subjects. JSTOR has a reputation for quality metadata and quality images. We bring many forces to bear on maintaining the quality of our content. So, we strive to have a JSTOR Thesaurus that will be a high-quality enhancement of our content. This presentation will cover the steps and the issues in creating our thesaurus. Presenter: Nancy Murray, ITHAKA/JSTOR

1. BUILDING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY THESAURUS FOR JSTOR
Selected Sources of Controlled Vocabularies
EXAMPLE OF A RULE (for “migration”)
IF (WITH "amenity" AND ( NEAR "human"))
USE Amenity migration
ENDIF
IF (WITH "animal*" OR WITH "behavior*" OR WITH
"behaviour*")
USE Animal migration behavior
ENDIF
IF (WITH "economic" AND ( NEAR "emigrant*" OR NEAR
"emigrate*" OR NEAR "employ*"))
USE Economic migration
ENDIF
IF (WITH "human*")
USE Human migration
ELSE
USE Population migration
ENDIF
IF (WITH "internal" AND ( NEAR "geopolitical entity"))
USE Internal migration
ENDIF
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A WORK IN PROGRESS
THE SOFTWARE
MAIstro™ - for Taxonomy Management and Document Indexing
MAIstro combines the functionality of Data Harmony®'s existing M.A.I.™ (Machine
Aided Indexer) and Thesaurus Master™ for taxonomy management and creation for
use in document indexing and metadata management.
M.A.I.™ : M.A.I. is a natural language processing tool that uses a rule-based system
for interactive document indexing.
Taxonomy Management: The Thesaurus Master® module of MAIstro is a specialized
taxonomy management software tool used for the creation and maintenance of a
taxonomy or the development of a full standards-compliant thesaurus.
Document Indexing: Since Thesaurus Master and M.A.I. are integrated in MAIstro, a
categorization rule is created automatically when a term is added, and changes to
terms in the thesaurus are immediately reflected in associated M.A.I. rules.
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