Conceptual Models for Urban Practitioners

The European Heritage Network was established as part of an EU funded project (HEREIN) which ran from 1998-2003 with the aim of creating a pan-governmental network for the Cultural Heritage Sector. One of the key deliverables of the project was a multilingual thesaurus of Cultural Heritage Policy Terminology (the HEREIN thesaurus) to allow the indexing of the National Heritage Policy reports of the EU member states in the two official languages of the Council of Europe (English and French) and Spanish. This paper will outline the practical approaches taken to develop the thesaurus and its extension from the original three languages using the HEREIN thesaurus as a case study.

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