Friday, November 14, 2008

Muddiest Point- week 10

What is the difference between controlled vocabulary and thesaurus vocabulary when you are making an index? Are these the same thing, and how do they relate?

2 comments:

RAlessandria said...

Hi, I could be wrong, but I believe a controlled vocab is for a particular document or subject matter and a thesaurus is more general.

Daqing said...

yes thesaurus is one specific type of controlled vocabulary