The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled and structured list of terms used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication and information. Continuously enriched and updated, its multidisciplinary terminology reflects the evolution of UNESCO's programmes and activities. [from homepage]

Prefix

unesco.thesaurus

Alternative Prefixes

UNESCOTHES

Keywords

communication science culture education science political science subject agnostic

License

CC-BY-3.0-IGO

Links

Homepage RDF

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in UNESCO Thesaurus should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

585   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from UNESCO Thesaurus should match this regular expression:
^unesco\.thesaurus:\d+$

Example CURIE

unesco.thesaurus:585

Contact

UNESCO

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (4)

DALIA Resources Resources for modeling Open Educational Resources NFDI4Objects Collection NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 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 585 is used to demonstrate the providers available for UNESCO 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.