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Federal Geological Institute (GBA) - Thesaurus

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The thesaurus contains terms as used in the Federal Institute's text publications and geological maps. All terms have their own http web addresses, which can be used as hyperlinks for online texts, in web applications, or as attributes to geodata. Each individual term can also have several alternative names, and is defined in its meaning (semantics) by superordinate, subordinate and related terms. In terms of content, the thesaurus is supervised by its own editorial team, with experts on various topics. The existing subject areas are constantly being expanded and, in addition to German, most of them are also available in English. The terms of the thesaurus are also published on the web machine-readable (XML, RDF, SKOS) and with other terms published on the web (dz. Wikipedia, GeoSciML, Freebase). The thesaurus can be used freely and complies with the standards of the Semantic Web or LinkedOpenData. For web programmers, there is also a SparQL endpoint and a REST interface to the thesaurus. With the creation of semantic and technically interoperable geodata, the Geologische Bundesanstalt implements the legal obligations of the EU Directive 2007/2/EC INSPIRE or the Geodata Infrastructure Act GeoDIG. The Federal Institute's data is attributed with thesaurus terms, while the thesaurus is simultaneously linked to INSPIRE terminology and other internationally standardized vocabulary.