Name:	Biosafety Clearing-House Thesaurus
Publisher:	Convention on Biological Diversity
Type:	Thesaurus
Categories:	Biology (Life Sciences)
Description:	The thesaurus provides a vocabulary of terms relating to biosafety and protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology. The primary purpose of controlled vocabularies is to allow the many users of the BCH to use the same terms, whether they are registering information or searching for it. The terminology is accessed by selecting one of the domains and then selecting terminology from that domain.
Total Terms:	600
Top Terms:	41
Preferred Terms:
Non-Preferred Terms:
Relationships:
Levels:	2
Notation Scheme:	No
Notation Description:
Relationship Types:	Associative, Equivalency, Hierarchical
Notes Fields:	Scope
Multilingual:	Yes
Languages:	Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish (European)
Additional Information:	"Pilot Phase" of project as of May 2003. It appears the intention is to expand substantially.
Revision Cycle:	Unknown
Last Updated:
Formats:	Public Website
Informational URL:
Online/Download URL:	http://bch.biodiv.org/Pilot/Thesaurus/Thesaurus.aspx