TY - JOUR JF - publij.ir JO - Research on Information Science and Public Libraries VL - 22 IS - 3 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/11/01 TI - An Investigation on Thesaurus of Engineering and NAMA according to ANSI/NISO z39.19 2005: Semantic Relations, Form Construction, Presentation and Management System TT - بررسی مقایسه‎ای روابط معنایی، ساختار شکلی و سیستم مدیریت اصطلاحنامه‎های فنی ـ مهندسی و نما N2 - Purpose: Thesauri as important tools in storage and retrieval information systems have a significant role in the optimization of database search. So the publishing of thesauri needs to use standards as much as possible. I examined and compared two important thesauruses on the basis of ANSI/NISO z39.19 2005. Methodology: This study is an analytical and applied survey. The study population was the last version of engineering thesaurus and NAMA thesaurus. Samples were compared against a checklist developed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which designed according to ANSI/NISO z39.19 2005 standards. The descriptive statistics were used for analyzing gathered data. Findings: The average level of observance of standards for semantic relationships in engineering thesaurus is 97.5% and this rate in NAMA thesaurus was 93%. In these thesauri the average levels of observance of standards for formal structure were 86% & 97% and for presentation were 54.5% & 57% respectively. Also, average levels of observance of standards for management system were 14% & 18% for engineering thesaurus and NAMA respectively. Originality/Value: Since the thesauri considered as important tools for IR systems, evaluation and improvement of them is of great importance. I tried to show weakness of thesauruses in the management system benchmark. SP - 489 EP - 509 AU - Kazerani, Maryam AD - KW - Thesauri KW - Controlled vocabularies KW - ANSI /NISO Z 39.19 -2005 KW - Engineering Thesaurus KW - NAMA thesaurus UR - http://publij.ir/article-1-1126-en.html ER -