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Vocabulary information


Title

HASSET Thesaurus

Description

The Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET) is the leading British English thesaurus for the social sciences. Developed by the UK Data Service, HASSET is used in-house for indexing and retrieval of UK Data Service data, and by many third party organisations. It consists of over 4,000 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology, history and, increasingly, environmental science. It was originally developed from the UNESCO thesaurus, becoming a separate product in 1997. Developers and ontologists can find more technical information here on how to retrieve RDF data from HASSET.

Number of terms:
Preferred Terms: 4756
Entry Terms: 3634

Date issued

2021-08-19

Rights holder

HASSET is the copyright of the University of Essex (all rights reserved).

URI

https://hasset.ukdataservice.ac.uk/