Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) is a list of
subject heading In information retrieval, an index term (also known as subject term, subject heading, descriptor, or keyword) is a term that captures the essence of the topic of a document. Index terms make up a controlled vocabulary for use in bibliographic record ...
s in the English language, using
controlled vocabulary
Control may refer to:
Basic meanings Economics and business
* Control (management), an element of management
* Control, an element of management accounting
* Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization
* Controlling ...
, to access and express the topic content of documents on
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
and Canadian topics.
Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is th ...
publishes and maintains CSH on the Web. Prior to the merger of the
National Library of Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is t ...
and the National Archives of Canada, the National Library of Canada published a print version of CSH.
Université Laval also publishes
Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM), a list intended to provide access to Canadian subject headings in the French language.
See also
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Faceted Application of Subject Terminology Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) is a general use controlled vocabulary based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). FAST is developed as a part of WorldCat by OCLC, Inc., with the goal of making subject cataloging les ...
(FAST), a simplified syntax of LCSH
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) comprise a thesaurus (in the information science sense, a controlled vocabulary) of subject headings, maintained by the United States Library of Congress, for use in bibliographic records. LC Subject ...
(LCSH)
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Subject Headings Authority File
The or SWD (translated as ''Subject Headings Authority File'') is a controlled vocabulary index term system used primarily for subject indexing in library catalogs. The SWD is managed by the German National Library (DNB) in cooperation with vario ...
(SWD; german: Schlagwortnormdatei)
* (french: Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié)
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Répertoire de vedettes-matière de l'Université Laval (RVM)
Footnotes
General references
Canadian Subject Headings Répertoire de vedettes-matière {{Authority control
Library cataloging and classification
Subject Headings