The Thesaurus of the GeoSphere Austria provides clear definitions of geoscientific terms across nine thematic areas. It is designed as a bilingual resource (German and English) and includes bibliographic references for each definition. In this way, it supports consistent and transparent use of key terms in the context of data attribution and metadata description.
Eight SKOS vocabularies from the GBA Thesaurus are now available on GeoSphere Tethys. These include the following subject areas: Geological Units, Geological Structures, Geological Timescales, Lithologies, Lithotectonic Units, Minerals and Raw Material Geology.
They can be found under the DOI https://doi.org/10.24341/tethys.241 to
https://doi.org/10.24341/tethys.247
The vocabularies can be downloaded directly from Tethys or referenced in your own applications.