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The ILO Thesaurus derives from a list of some 1200 keywords
suggested by ILO researchers in 1964, following the decision to computerize
information storage and retrieval in the ILO Library. Soon after, the ILO
Library joined forces with an OECD working group to produce an Aligned list
of descriptors, the first controlled vocabulary for indexing documents in
the field of economic and social development. This later became the OECD
Macrothesaurus which the ILO Library used for indexing and retrieving
information until the first edition of the ILO Thesaurus was published in 1976.
The ILO Thesaurus is regularly updated to meet the ILO's specific
terminology needs. Potential new terms are monitored to see how their use
develops in the literature and discussions are held with indexers and subject
specialists to decide on their inclusion in the ILO Thesaurus.
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