The Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz) contains about 12,000 entries, of which more than 8,000 are descriptors (authorized keywords) and about 6,000 non-descriptors. Topics from all disciplines of the social sciences are covered. This SKOS version of the thesaurus contains descriptors and non-descriptors in four languages (German, English, French, and Russian) as well as links to the TheSoz Classification, the STW Thesaurus for Economics, the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, and to DBpedia.

Prefix

gesis.thesoz

Keywords

social sciences

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

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Publications

2025 Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (SKOS version)

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Thesaurus for the Social Sciences should match this regular expression:
^\d{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

10034479   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Thesaurus for the Social Sciences should match this regular expression:
^gesis\.thesoz:\d{8}$

Example CURIE

gesis.thesoz:10034479

Contact

Benjamin Zapilko   0000-0001-9495-040X   BenZapilko

Identifier Space Owner

GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

Contributors

submitter Noemi Betancort Cabrera   0000-0002-0156-3556   nbetancort

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

KonsortSWD

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 10034479 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Thesaurus for the Social Sciences. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.