The SAGE Social Science Thesaurus is a multidisciplinary vocabulary of the most important concepts in the social sciences. SAGE uses this vocabulary as its principal keyword vocabulary for automated tagging of content on SAGE Knowledge and SAGE Research Methods. You are welcome to browse, download, use and transform the vocabulary for any non-commercial purpose.
The majority of concepts in the thesaurus have been mined from headwords in SAGE encyclopedias and other reference works. Relationships between concepts have been inferred from implicit structures in those works, for example subject indexes and readers' guides. As such, the thesaurus is a structured representation of what the editors of those reference works consider to be the most important concepts in the social sciences.
Additional scraping work has extracted and structured concept-specific metadata, such as dates (for events and people) and definitions. In addition to broader-narrower relationships, concepts are grouped by type: concepts, people, organizations, events, methods, theories or laws.
sage.socialsciencethesaurusA summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.
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 -LHR8P7WS-K is used to demonstrate the providers
available for SAGE Social Science Thesaurus. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| SAGE Social Science Thesaurus | sage.socialsciencethesaurus |
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-LHR8P7WS-K |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/sage.socialsciencethesaurus:-LHR8P7WS-K |