Rimmf is a a visualization tool for cataloguers, to help them to get used to thinking RDA, instead of thinking AACR/MARC, as well as a cataloging training tool, to help educators teach RDA thinking.
The Cataloger's Reference Shelf is based on 21 MARC manuals and other reference works published by The Library of Congress and frequently accessed by technical services staff. A must see for catalogers!
Other articles where Thesaurus is discussed: library: Thesauri: A new use of the term thesaurus, now widespread, dates from the early 1950s in the work of H.P. Luhn, at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), who was searching for a computer process that could create a list of authorized terms for the indexing…
VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)
A joint project with the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, VIAF explores virtually combining the name authority files of all three institutions into a single name authority service. The goal of this project is to facilitate research across languages anywhere in the world by making authorities truly international.