Dating from 1978 when catalogues of the Central Library of the Commission of the European Communities (now the European Union) were computerised, ECLAS is a thesaurus created by the Central Library of the Commission of the European Communities for indexing the publications and documents acquired by the Central Library of the Commission. ECLAS was based on the Macrothesaurus of OECD and complemented by the ILO thesaurus. After creation of EUROVOC in 1984, convergence started in order to bring ECLAS in line with EUROVOC, but it was never complete. ECLAS contains nineteen areas of interest in a hierarchical tree structure consisting of four levels. ECLAS is fully available in English and in French. The OP COMM ECLAS is maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.

Prefix

eclas

Keywords

educational resources literature

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

004.11.00.0100   Resolve

Example CURIE

eclas:004.11.00.0100

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 004.11.00.0100 is used to demonstrate the providers available for European Commission Library Thesaurus. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.