The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of

Knowledge Organization Systems Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), concept system or concept scheme is a generic term used in knowledge organization for authority files, classification schemes, thesaurus (information retrieval), thesauri, topic maps, Ontology (information scien ...

. Its main goal is to document knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as

classification Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes. It may also refer to: Business, organizat ...

s, thesauri and authority files, at one place, in order to achieve greater visibility, highlight their features, make them searchable and comparable, and foster knowledge sharing. In contrast to other terminology registries, BARTOC includes any kind of KOS from any subject area, in any language, any publication format, and any form of accessibility. In addition, it manages a list of other terminology registries. The creation of BARTOC was motivated by the need to create a

bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

, and teaching

information literacy The Association of College & Research Libraries defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued and the use of inform ...

. Since its launch in November 2013, BARTOC has collected information about more than 5,000 terminologies and almost 100 terminology registries until November 2020. A comparative study of terminology types and registries confirmed BARTOC to contain "a relatively sufficient amount of metadata". Its content is available as

public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, ...

with the Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL). A circle of international editors has gathered around BARTOC from twelve countries all across Europe. BARTOC has been approved by the International Society for Knowledge Organization. In November 2020 the implementation of BARTOC was moved from

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at the University Library of Basel to a new technical infrastructure developed with project coli-conc.coli-conc homepage
/ref> Since then, BARTOC is hosted at the Common Library Network (GBV) in

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