Managing Types of Links

The Link Types screen of the Thesaurus Maintenance screen lists the ways in which thesaurus terms are related – Link types.

 

The link types listed in the following table are defined, by default.

Relationship Description Example
BT/NT broader term/narrower term

Granny Smith BT apple

Apple NT Granny Smith

BTG/NTG broader term generic/narrower term generic

Mouse BTG rodent

Rodent NTG mouse

BTI/NTI broader term instance/narrower term instance

Sydney BTI cities

Cities NTI Sydney

BTP/NTP broader term partitive/narrower term partitive

Sydney BTP Australia

Australia NTP Sydney

RT related terms

Barley RT wheat

UF/USE used for/use instead of

Dress USE frock

Frock UF dress (where frock is the preferred term)

 

Use the Link Types screen to define additional types of links to describe how terms are related.

For example, you can define a historic term (for example, Siam) and current term (for example, Thailand) as a UF/USE link type.