3. Design and development

3.1 Standards and guidelines

There are a number of guiding principles that are considered essential to the project of developing a thesaurus. Compliance with the guidelines ensures that the thesaurus is internally consistent and structurally compatible with similar tools.

The most recent standard, ISO 25964Tesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies (2011-2012), is applicable to the development and management of structured vocabularies representing subjects and concepts used in information systems, hierarchical directories, indexes and classification...