Multilingual Glossary of Controlled Vocabulary Terminology

This Multilingual Glossary of Controlled Vocabulary Terminology includes English, French, Russian, and German terms related to indices, thesauri, taxonomies, and other kinds of controlled vocabularies.

I have compiled the Glossary on the basis of the Standard ГОСТ 7.74-96 “Информационно-поисковые языки. Термины и определения” accepted in Russia and a few former USSR countries. Even though the corresponding ISO standard (5127-6:83) was revised and replaced by ISO 5127:2001, the Glossary could still be of help to librarians, translators, taxonomy specialists, etc. I personally found it to be extremely useful when working on the English-Russian translation of thesaurus software documentation.

The Glossary is available in PDF and in DOC formats to allow you to rearrange and sort the columns depending on your language preferences. Feel free to contact me with any questions regarding the Glossary or its sources.

Multicultural library pamphlets

The State Library of New South Wales welcomes its multicultural community via multilingual pamphlets containing information about core library services. The pamphlets are available in 44 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Turkish, etc.

Since the information in all pamphlets is virtually identical, you can easily arrange them into bilingual pairs to brush up your library vocabulary in a foreign language or to help you with translation.

The NSW multicultural pamphlets page

Glossary of Publishing Terminology – Глоссарий издательских терминов

This Glossary of Publishing Terminology by the Publishers Association (UK) comes in two versions: English-Russian (entries in English with definitions in Russian) and English only. Either version would come in handy for a librarian, translator or anyone in the book trade. Translation credits to: L.V. Shipov.

Note that in order to use the Glossary you have to accept the terms and conditions of the user agreement, that is to use the text for non-commercial purposes only and to make no more than 25 copies of it.

English-Russian version

English only version