Australian Sport Thesaurus

The Australian Sport Thesaurus is an accumulation of over 15,000 terms and definitions covering concepts and objects related to sport and sporting organisations with a strong emphasis on Australian sport. It is an evolving project and not all definitions have been verified and therefore we are seeking input from the sporting community to help us improve this product.

The Thesaurus is in the most part a controlled vocabulary that aims to reduce ambiguity in sporting terminology by providing authorised terms for every sport and sporting activity. Having defined preferred and non-preferred terms within sport is intended to promote consistency in terminology across the entire sporting community. While at this stage it is called a Thesaurus, in the longer term it is hoped that the product becomes a sports metadata register for the purpose of creating data standards for data exchange and interoperability.

The Australian Sports Thesaurus seeks to provide clarity and assistance to the sport community by: 1. ensuring consistency of understanding and usage of sport terminology in documentary, legal and commercial discussions 2. enabling improved system and database interoperability and reporting 3. facilitating search and retrieval of information from sport information systems 4. facilitating the defining of sport data for Data Dictionaries.

The terms and definitions are where relevant linked by the following relationships: +Preferred term +Non-preferred term +Broader term +Narrower term +Related term