Eurovoc

In this chapter you will read about EuroVoc, which is another tool you will be asked to work with in this course.  You will learn about its  purpose, aim, users as well as languages  which EuroVoc covers.

EU multilingual thesaurus

 

EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU, the European Parliament in particular. It contains terms in 22 EU languages (Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), plus Croatian and Serbian.

EuroVoc users include the European Parliament, the Publications Office, national and regional parliaments in Europe, plus national governments and private users around the world.

EuroVoc was originally built up specifically for processing the documentary information of the EU institutions.

It is a multidisciplinary thesaurus covering fields which are sufficiently wide-ranging to encompass both EU and national points of view, with a certain emphasis on parliamentary activities. EuroVoc is a controlled vocabulary set which can be used outside the EU institutions, particularly by parliaments.

The aim of the thesaurus is to provide information management and dissemination services with a coherent indexing tool to effectively manage their documentary resources and to enable users to carry out documentary searches using controlled vocabulary.

 

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Decide whether the given statements are true or falls. Click on yes if you think that the particular sentence is true and on no if you think it's false.


Eurovoc contains terms in 22 languages.

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Eurovoc is used by European as well as national institutions.

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Though EuroVoc covers a wide range of  fields, it focuses on managment vocabulary in particular.

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Ikona iDevice Now you know
  • which languages EuroVoc covers
  • what its aim is
  • that it is available to public and therefore you can use it yourself