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Toward a Thesaurus of Radiocarbon Dating and Related Terms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Dilette Polach
Dilette Polach*
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Dating Research, PO Box 43, Garran, ACT, 2605, Australia
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Abstract

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The development of a Thesaurus of Radiocarbon Dating and Related Terms was undertaken to provide a basic common vocabulary of terms for the purpose of indexing an Annotated Bibliography of Radiocarbon Dating (1948–68) and form the basis of a language for information storage and retrieval in 14C dating and related term areas. The interdisciplinary nature of 14C dating dictates that selected terms have meanings in the context of archaeology, geology, earth sciences, oceanography, and environmental sciences, to name but a few, as well as chemistry and nuclear instrumentation on which the technique of 14C determinations is based. This paper describes the method used for selection of terms and explains the structure of the proposed thesaurus. A limited edition Draft Thesaurus was distributed to a selected panel of colleagues for critical evaluation.

Type
VIII. Reporting and Management of Data
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 776 - 780
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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