Preferred Term Name

A Preferred Term Name is the Technical Term associated with a Terminological Unit Record (typically a Controlled Term Record) that is the preferred Word Form to use when referencing it.

• AKA: Preferred Term, Preferred Concept Name.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Nonpreferred Term.
• See: Controlled Vocabulary, Descriptor.

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References

2008

• (Dextre Clarke et al., 2008) ⇒ Stella Dextre Clarke, Alan Gilchrist, Ron Davies and Leonard Will. (2008). “Glossary of Terms Relating to Thesauri and Other Forms of Structured Vocabulary for Information Retrieval." Willpower Information
  • preferred term
    • (use for descriptor)
    • term specified by a controlled vocabulary for use to represent a concept when indexing.
    • e.g. schools; school uniform; costs of schooling; teaching.
    • A preferred term should preferably be a noun or noun phrase.
• http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/677/thesaur/glossary.htm#thesaurus
  • Preferred term: A term in a controlled vocabulary, such as a thesaurus that may be used as a controlled indexing term.

2005

• (ANSI Z39.19, 2005) ⇒ ANSI. (2005). “ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." ANSI.
  • QUOTE: "preferred term One of two or more synonyms or lexical variants selected as a term for inclusion in a controlled vocabulary. See also non-preferred term.

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