Glossary about Controlled Vocabularies tematres thesaurus, thesauri, information retrieval, controlled vocabularies, glossary, definitions, structured vocabularies, facets, faceted classification 1998-12-31 2011-12-13 10:39:06 en historical term Also called a historical name. In the context of the vocabularies discussed in this book, a name or term that was used to refer to a person, place, subject, or concept in the past, but in current usage has been replaced with a different term or name (for example, historical names for St Petersburg, Russia, are Leningrad and Petrograd) 2011-08-16 23:06:52