The ELSST Team share some innovations for the European Language Social Science Thesaurus.
New software
November 16 2020 marked an important milestone for the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) with the launch of its new platform on the CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) website. The launch was the culmination of intensive work in the past eighteen months led by the UK Data Service.
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The previous publishing platform/thesaurus laos rcs data management system was a bespoke system designed and hosted by the UK Data Service, primarily to support the joint management of the multilingual ELSST and its in-house monolingual/English Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET), on which ELSST was originally based.
However, the software is now outdated, and it was felt that the time was right to move both thesauri onto new management and publishing platforms, and for ELSST to move to CESSDA to reflect its pan-European nature. It is also expected to raise the profile of ELSST as a key multilingual metadata tool which can be used for both keyword indexing and discovery.