About Lexaurus

Culture Grid Vocabulary Bank is a joint venture between Collections Trust and Vocabulary Management Group. The bank enables users to browse, search and download a wide range of controlled vocabularies, thesauri and terminologies. There is an alerting function which provides details of changes to vocabularies in RSS and ATOM formats and a machine to machine interface accessible via a REST API.

Cultural Sector organisations that wish to have their vocabularies hosted on the Culture Grid Vocabulary Bank should contact Collections Trust in the first instance.

In addition to the hosting of vocabularies, we can also provide a fully featured editor which can be used to create and edit vocabularies. This can be used as a stand alone tool or be tightly integrated with Culture Grid Vocabulary Bank.

The Vocabulary Bank is designed to complement the core Culture Grid service, giving organisations the opportunity of using the APIs to provide a crosswalk between vocabularies used within the grid metadata and other controlled vocabularies in a seamless manner.

Please read the Terms And Conditions to find out more about the conditions for using this service

Latest Updates

Joint Academic Coding System
Updated BySystem Administrator |5 Dec 2011 10:52:54 GMT
Vocabulary edited [5 terms]
The UK Archival Thesaurus
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 15:30:54 GMT
Vocabulary edited [1 term]
Social History and Industrial Classification
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:29:49 GMT
Vocabulary imported [1,648 terms]
MICHAEL Service or Product
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:13:12 GMT
Vocabulary imported [19 terms]
MICHAEL Project or Programme
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:13:05 GMT
Vocabulary imported [16 terms]
MICHAEL Physical Format
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:12:58 GMT
Vocabulary imported [30 terms]
MICHAEL Physical Collection
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:12:50 GMT
Vocabulary imported [14 terms]
MICHAEL Period
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:12:43 GMT
Vocabulary imported [32 terms]
MICHAEL ISO-693-3
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:12:34 GMT
Vocabulary imported [469 terms]
MICHAEL Institution Types
Updated BySystem Administrator |25 Nov 2011 12:12:26 GMT
Vocabulary imported [10 terms]