4. Data recording and presentation

Thesaurus development standards and manuals rarely address the details of operations and the practical organization of day-to-day work. Each organization develops its own procedures according to the resources at its disposal.

The development of a thesaurus involves the manipulation of a vast amount of textual data. Today, there is no thesaurus whose development and management are not, to varying degrees, computer-aided. The following options are available for data processing:

• use of word-processing or spreadsheet software; thesaurus development is then described as "artisanal" or "manual";

• use of integrated database management software capable of receiving and processing thesaurus data;

• use of a module for managing lists of authorities and structured...