Find on this page the description of other sites which list or host scientific terminological resources in free access
BabelNet – https://babelnet.org
BabelNet is a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary, with wide lexicographic and encyclopedic coverage of terms, and a semantic network/ontology. Conceived within the Sapienza NLP Group (Sapienza University of Rome)
BARTOC – https://bartoc.org/
The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related registries
CSIRO Compendium of vocabularies – https://confluence.csiro.au/public/VOCAB/vocabulary-content/compendium-of-vocabularies
Compendium of vocabularies (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
DBpedia-Archivo – https://archivo.dbpedia.org/list
DBpedia Archivo is an online interface and augmented archive for all kinds of vocabularies. It automatically crawls for OWL ontologies and updates the already enlisted ontologies regularly
EU Vocabularies – https://op.europa.eu/fr/web/eu-vocabularies
Vocabularies catalogue of the Publications Office of the European Union
FAIRSharing – Standards – https://fairsharing.org/search?fairsharingRegistry=Standard
Directory of terminologies, models/formats, schemas, … hosted by the University of Oxford and maintained in collaboration with the RDA Data Readiness Group
FranceTerme – https://www.culture.fr/franceterme
Terms recommended by the French Language Enrichment Commission and published in the Official Journal of the French Republic
GESIS Controlled Vocabulary Service – https://lod.gesis.org/en/
Controlled vocabularies in the humanities and social sciences. This service is provided by the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
IATE – https://iate.europa.eu/home
IATE (Interactive Terminology for Europe) is the EU’s terminology database
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) – https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/
Catalogue of reusable RDFS vocabularies or OWL ontologies defined and used for the description of data on the Web
Research Vocabularies Australia – https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/
Research Vocabularies Australia helps you find, access, and reuse vocabularies for research
Semantics.gr – https://www.semantics.gr/authorities/
Semantics.gr is a bilingual (English-Greek) platform for the development, curation and interlinking of vocabularies, thesauri, classifications, classification schemes and authority files and their publication as Linked Open Data (LOD). The infrastructure is being developed by the National Documentation Centre in Greece (EKT)
ShowVoc – https://showvoc.op.europa.eu/#/datasets
ShowVoc is a web-based catalogue and viewer for OWL ontologies, SKOS(/XL) thesauri, Ontolex-lemon lexicons and generic RDF datasets. ShowVoc is managed by the Publications Office of the EU
TermCoord – Glossary links – https://termcoord.eu/glossarylinks/
Glossaries catalogue regularly checked and updated by TermCoord (Terminology Coordination, European Parliament)
TerMef – https://terminologie.finances.gouv.fr/index
The terminological repositories of the French Economic and Financial Ministries (Mef)
TERMIUM Plus – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/
The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank
TIB Terminology Service – https://terminology.tib.eu/ts
A single point of access to terminologies from domains such as architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics, provides by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library (TIB)
UNTERM – https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/fr/
UNTERM is a multilingual database for official terminology relevant to the work of the United Nations
WIPO Pearl – https://www.wipo.int/reference/fr/wipopearl/index.html
WIPO’s (World Intellectual Property Organization) multilingual terminology portal. It gives access to scientific and technical terms derived from patent documents
CESSDA Vocabulary Service – https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/
The vocabulary service enables users to discover, browse, and download controlled vocabularies in a variety of languages. It is provided by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
DARIAH-EU Vocabs – https://vocabs.dariah.eu/fr/
Vocabularies and ontologies repository created by the ACDH-CH (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage)
Datu – https://datu.ehess.fr/fr/
The Ehess (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) thesaurus and controlled vocabularies service
Pactols – https://pactols.frantiq.fr/
Pactols is a reservoir of controlled and multilingual keywords, created by Frantiq (Federation and Resources on Antiquity) and developed with the support of MASA consortium (Memory of archaeologists and archaeological sites)
IndustryPortal – http://industryportal.enit.fr/
Ontology portal for industry and related domains
IUPAC Gold Book – https://goldbook.iupac.org/
Interactive version of IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
MatPortal – https://matportal.org
Ontology repository for materials science
NFDI4Chem Terminology Service – https://terminology.nfdi4chem.de/ts/
The Terminology Service is a repository for chemistry ontologies developed and maintained by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB)
PhySH (Physics Subject Headings) – https://physh.org/
Physics classification scheme developed by APS (American Physical Society)
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) – https://astrothesaurus.org/
An astronomy and astrophysics thesaurus which builds upon the existing IAU Thesaurus with major contributions from the Astronomy portions of the thesauri developed by the Institute of Physics Publishing and the American Institute of Physics
AgroPortal – https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/
Vocabulary and ontology repository for agronomy and related domains
EcoPortal – https://ecoportal.lifewatch.eu/
The LifeWatch ERIC repository of semantic resources for ecology and related domains
FAOTERM – https://www.fao.org/faoterm/fr/
The TERM PORTAL has been created to store, manage and update concepts, terms and definitions related to the various fields of FAO’s activity
Vocabulaires Ouverts @INRAE – https://vocabulaires-ouverts.inrae.fr/
Terminology portal of INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment)
EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service – https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/index
The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) is a repository for biomedical ontologies
HeTOP – https://www.hetop.eu
HeTOP (Health Terminology/Ontology Portal) contains the main terminologies or ontologies of the Health domain. It’s a CISMeF (Catalog and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet) project initiated by the Rouen University Hospital
NCBO BioPortal – https://bioportal.bioontology.org/
Repository of biomedical ontologies
OBO Library – https://obofoundry.org/
Interoperable ontologies for the biological sciences – OBO (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry)
Ontobee – https://ontobee.org/
Ontobee is a linked data server aimed to facilitate biomedical ontologies data sharing, visualization, query, integration, and analysis. It is the default linked ontology data server for most OBO Foundry library ontologies, but has also been used for many non-OBO ontologies. Developped by the University of Michigan Medical School
Serveur Multi-Terminologies de l’ANS – https://smt.esante.gouv.fr/
Medical terminology repository of the French « Agence du Numérique en Santé » (ANS)
SIFR BioPortal – https://bioportal.lirmm.fr/
A repository for French biomedical terminologies and ontologies
EcoRessources – http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/~termeco/EcoRessources/
EcoRessources is a comprehensive platform that brings together online dictionaries, glossaries and thesauri focusing on the environment (Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal)
I-ADOPT Catalogue of Terminologies – https://i-adopt.github.io/terminologies/list
This repository contains terminologies to compose semantic variable descriptions as proposed by the RDA InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology WG
NERC Vocabulary Server – http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/
The NVS gives access to standardised and hierarchically-organized vocabularies. It is managed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC)