Metadata Tools

Indices & Thesauri
Geographic Indexing Resources

Indices & Thesauri

Agricola -- Guide to Subject Indexing
http://www.nalusda.gov/indexing/subjguid.html

CIESIN Indexing Vocabulary version 2.1
http://www.ciesin.org/metadata/documentation/vocab/index.html

Global Change Master Directory Valids
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/valids

Glossary of Oceanography, Climatology and the Related Geosciences with References
http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/paleo/paleogloss/paleogloss.html

NASA Thesaurus
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/nasa-thesaurus.html

Geographic Indexing Resources

Cartographic Reference Resources, The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Cartographic_reference.html

Excite City.Net Top Maps
http://www.city.net

GeoNames (Canada)
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/cgndb.html

GEONet Names Server
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html

USMARC Codelist for Countries
gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/.listarch/usmarc/country

USMARC Codelist for Geographic Names
gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/.listarch/usmarc/gac

U.S. Gazetteer
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/

U.S.G.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/

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