Information Studies
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Knowledge organization tools for yoga domain: interlinking bilingual yoga glossary and thesaurus

  • Author:
  • B.L. Vinod Kumar1, Khaiser Nikam2
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 115 to 128

1S-VYASA, Sarasvathi Central Library, Prashant Kutir, Bangalore, India. E-mail: vinodkumarbl@gmail.com.

2Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore-570006, Karnataka, India. Email:khaiser.nikam6@gmail.com.

Abstract

Briefly describes the design and development of a machine-readable thesaurus, specifically for Yoga using Unesco's WINISIS software. Describes the procedure adopted for identifying the core concepts of the subject and related fields. The system permits searching terms and navigation through hypertext linking to equivalent term, hierarchical term, associative term and Sanskrit-English Yoga Glossary created using MultiTes Pro v2011.02.20ux BETA version.

Keywords

Thesaurus, Yoga, Bilingual Glossary, WINISIS, MultiTesPro, Hypertext linking