Using terms from these thesauri will help your metadata become discovered and integrated into the San Francisco Bay Area Conservation Commons and participating databases. You may also develop your own or contribute other useful thesauri, classification systems, gazetteers, and term lists, and we'll be happy to post them here for others to reference.

We list the thesauri together with the CalEDLN record field or fields with which they are appropriate. All the fields listed allow more than one keywords, so you can pick terms out of more than one thesaurus.

Resource Type:

CERES Resource Type

Project Subject, Theme:

CERES Theme
GEMET (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus)
EPA TRS (Terminology Reference System)
ISO Themes

Place:

CERES Location (GeoFinder)
GNIS (USGS Geographic Name Information System)

Taxon:

ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
PLANTS (USDA PLANTS Database)

Project Activity:

NRPI Project Activity
SFEI Project Activity
BAWP Project Activity
SFBJV Project Activity
NBWA Project Activity

Project Habitat:

SFBJV Habitat
BAWP Habitat
SFBJV Water Regime
NVCS (National Vegetation Classification System)

Organizations:

North Bay Organizations