Purpose of the HEREIN thesaurus

The multilingual thesaurus attached to the HEREIN project intends to offer a terminological standard for national policies dealing with architectural and archaeological heritage, as defined in the Convention of Granada (October 1985) and Valletta (January 1992). At first, it will be conceived in English, Spanish and French; it will subsequently be possible to extend the thesaurus to other languages.

This tool is intended to help the user of the website when surfing through the various on-line national reports. Thanks to its standardized vocabulary and to the scope notes appended to each term - which form source material - the multilingual thesaurus gives access, with one concept, to different national experiences or policies whose specific designation, administrative structure, and development provide a view over the wide-ranging extent of European cultural diversity.

Besides which, the thesaurus offers the user a terminological tool which allows them to have a better understanding of all the concepts they come across when reading the reports; thanks to the hierarchical and associative interplay of terms, the users can complete or extend their knowledge of the subject.