The subject area is economic and social development, hence the core areas are: International co-operation and international relations; Economic and social policy and planning; Economics conditions, research and systems; Institutional frameworks, including law, politics and government, and human rights. All of these topics are treated in some depth and impinge on virtually all types of human activity, a fact which is reflected in what ISO 2788 calls fringe areas. These are culture and society, education and training, agriculture, industry, trade, transport, public finance and banking, management, labour, demography and population, health and the sciences.

Presents a common vocabulary to facilitate the indexing, retrieval and exchange of development-related information.

A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered.

Conference report on classification research for global information networks - covers theory of indexing, analogy with natural languages, linguistics approaches to information processing, thesaurus construction, etc. Flow charts, illustrations and references. List of participants. Conference held in Bombay 1975 Jan 6 to 11.