What is Humord?
Humord is a general subject thesaurs covering most areas of scientific study. The thesaurus is in Norwegian and English. Humord is also the name of a joint indexing activity.
At the moment, there are 27 libraries in the university and college sector using the thesaurus.
Facts about the thesaurus
Subject coverage
The thesaurus is mainly based upon the literary warrant in the participating libraries and covers most subject areas.
Thesaurus structure
The thesaurus is based upon guidelines in ISO 25964-1. The structure is basically hierarchical with some use of facets.
Vocabulary
As of September 2026, the Humord thesaurus includes approximately 30.500 concepts and about 160.000 terms.
The indexing terms are single concepts for post-coordination.
Contact:
emnedatahenvendelser@ub.uio.no