Government of Canada controlled vocabulary registry

As prescribed in Treasury Board's Standard on Metadata, Library and Archives Canada is responsible for the registration of controlled vocabularies used in the Government of Canada for Web resource discovery.

Controlled vocabulary registry

• Canadian government-maintained controlled vocabularies

  dc.coverage Vocabularies

  Title: Canadian Geographical Names Database
  Maintained by: Natural Resources Canada
  Label: gcgeonames

  dc.subject Vocabularies

  Title: Canadian Subject Headings (CSH)
  Maintained by: Library and Archives Canada
  Label: gccsh

  Title: CRTC Thesaurus
  Maintained by: Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
  Label: gccrtcthes

  Title: Department of Finance Controlled Subject Vocabulary
  Maintained by: Department of Finance Canada
  Label: gcfin

  Title: Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus (CST)
  Maintained by: Library and Archives Canada
  Label: gccore

  Title: Health Canada Controlled Subject Vocabulary
  Maintained by: Health Canada
  Label: gchccv

  Title: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada / Indigenous Services Canada Subject Thesaurus (CIST)
  Maintained by: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
  Label: gcinac

  Title: Publishing and Depository Services Program - subject thesaurus (PDF version)
  Maintained by: Public Services and Procurement Canada
  Label: gcpds

• Externally-maintained controlled vocabularies

  Title: Agrovoc, Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus
  URL: AGROVOC Multilin
  Maintained by: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  Label: AGROVOC

  Title: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
  Maintained by: Getty Research Institute
  Label: AAT

  Title: ASFA Thesaurus
  URL: https://agrovoc.fao.org/skosmosAsfa/asfa/en/
  Maintained by: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS)
  Label: ASFAT

  Title: Canadian Taxonomy of Human Services
  URL: https://211taxonomy.org/
  Maintained by: 211 of LA County, in collaboration with InformCanada Federation
  Label: CTHS

  Title: Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
  URL: www.oclc.org/dewey/about/
  Maintained by: OCLC
  Label: DDC

  Title: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
  URL: https://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/wgiss/access/international-directory-network/
  Maintained by: NASA
  Label: GCMD

  Title: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS): Taxon based biological information system
  Maintained by: Smithsonian Institution
  Label: ITIS

  Title: Library of Congress Classification Outline
  Maintained by: Library of Congress
  Label: LCC

  Title: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
  Maintained by: Library of Congress
  Label: LCSH

  Title: Medical Subject Headings
  Maintained by: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Label: MESH

  Title: National Library of Medicine Classification
  Maintained by: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Label: NLMC

  Title: OECD Macrothesaurus - HTML Version
  Maintained by: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  Label: OECDMT

  Title: Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM)
  Maintained by: Université Laval
  Label: RVM

Standards for controlled vocabulary development

Government of Canada

Treasury Board. Standard on Metadata

Other

• Information and documentation - Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies - Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval. [ISO 25964-1:2011]
• Information and documentation - Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies - Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies. [ISO 25964-2:2013]
• Information technology - Topic maps - Part 2: Data model. [ISO 13250-2:2006]
• Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. [ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010)]
• Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices. [NISO TR-02-1997]