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Victoria Online Thesaurus Updates

The Victoria Online Thesaurus is managed by Victoria Online. It is managed and updated regularly in response to continuing site analysis of the Victoria Online website. Suggestions from other agencies may be considered and any feedback should be directed to infovic@dbi.vic.gov.au.

There will be two annual public updates of the Victoria Online Thesaurus, in January and July.

• Update No. 1 - January 2006
• Update No. 2 - August 2006
• Update No. 3 - January 2007
• Update No. 4 - July 2007
• Update No. 5 - January 2008
• Update No. 6 - July 2008
• Update No. 7 - July 2009
• Update No. 8 - February 2011

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Update No. 8 - February 2011

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.7

New preferred terms

Carbon footprints
Fire Services Commissioner
Flood levies
Identity crime
Identity theft
Information Commissioner
Kiteboarding
Malicious software
Mobile apps
Mosquitoes
Online scams
Smokers
Social inclusion
Social networks
Tablet computers
Terrorists
Wakeboarding

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Update No.7 - July 2009

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.6.

New preferred terms

Appliances
Carer's leave
Ceiling insulation
Chief Commissioner
Commissioner for Law Enforcement Data Security
Cyclones
Data management
Disability Services Commissioner
Electronic health records
Employer associations
Employment brokers
e-Passport
Federal Safety Commissioner
Fluorescent lamps
Heat related illnesses
Incandescent lamps
Insulation rebates
Integrity Commissioner
Landslides
LEDs
Lighting
Medical authorities
Meteorite strikes
National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy
National Curriculum
Outworkers
Peninsula Link
Personal leave
Public Sector Standards Commissioner
Racing Integrity Commissioner
Recession
Same-sex law reforms
Same-sex relationships
Swine flu
Virtual voting
Widgets

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Update No. 6 - July 2008

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.5.

Carbon pollution
Pollution permits
Solarium regulations
Solariums
Workplace Ombudsman

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Update No. 5 - January 2008

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.4.

Carbon trading
Chat rooms
Chickens
Citizenship test
Conveyancers
Corneal donation
Cyber bullying
Cyber stalking
Desalination plants
Dual citizenship
Egg industry
Equine influenza
Funeral industry
OPML
Sex Discrimination Commissioner
Skate parks
Speech impairments
Stalking
Telephone access services
Travel agents
Water reforms
Water saving appliances
Wildlife licences

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Update No.4 - July 2007

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.3.

Adoption leave
Aerial advertising
Allergies
Animal cruelty
Anti-doping programs
Assistance animals
Athletes
Australian Building and Construction Commissioner
Bioethics
Biographies
Biotechnology regulations
Blogs
Boat registration
Bore water
Branding policy
Censorship
Climbing
Community languages
Counting
Cows
Domain name management
e-Consultations
e-Counting
Energy emergencies
Food technology
Fuel rebates
Fungi
Gaming licences
Gene therapy
Genetic disorders
Geneticists
Grey water
Greyhounds
Health industry
Horses
Interest rates
International law
Lifesavers
Medical research awards
Mobility aids
Music industry
Nuclear safety
Occupational therapists
Occupational therapy
Organic food
Parental leave
PDAs
Pharmaceutical industry
Police bullying
Postage rates
Postal Industry Ombudsman
Power stations
Recital centres
Reptiles
Scuba diving
Sex offender registers
Sex offenders
Solar power rebates
Spas
Sustainability awards
Terminal illnesses
Tourist visas
Train accidents
Website management
White water rafting
Wikis
Working visas
Young offenders

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Update No. 3 - January 2007

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.2.

Version 2.2

Allergies
Anti-doping programs
Athletes
Bioenergy
Biotechnology regulations
Bore water
Censorship
Chaplains
Claim forms
Climbing
Counting
Domain name management
Drought assistance
e-Consultations
e-Counting
e-Strategy
Fire maps
Food technology
Fuel rebates
Gaming licences
Grey water
Holidays
Indigenous languages
Interest rates
Lifesavers
Organic food
PDAs
Pharmaceutical industry
Police bullying
Power stations
Recital centres
Road closures
Scuba diving
Seniors Sunday pass
Sex offender registers
Sex offenders
Sheep
Sustainable irrigation
Taxi drivers
Tidal energy
Topographic maps
Tourist maps
Unclaimed superannuation
Wave energy
Website management
White water rafting
Wool industry

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Update No.2 - August 2006

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.1.

Version 2.1

New preferred terms

Accessibility evaluation
Ajax
Anxiety disorders
Bail Justices
Banner advertising
Bipolar mood disorder
Broadband television
Cameras
Child Safety Commissioner
Cognitive disabilities
Colonoscopy
Customer satisfaction surveys
Direct marketing
e-Census
e-Crime
e-Grants
Elder abuse
Electricity meters
Electronic document management
e-Research
Erosion
e-Tax
e-Tenders
e-Ticketing
Fingerprints
Gas meters
Honorary Justices
Hoon driving
Illegal immigration
Legal Services Commissioner
LPG
Meters
Nuclear energy
Nuclear policy
Nuisance calls legislation
Palm prints
Photographic equipment
Recreation camps
Safety investigations
Water meters
Web directories
Website archives
Website governance
Website navigation

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Update No.1 - January 2006

These updates will appear in the Victoria Online Thesaurus, Version 2.0.

Version 2.0

New subject category

EG eGovernment

New preferred terms

Accessibility standards
ADSL
Advertising campaigns
Authentication
Bingo
Biofuels
Biometrics
Browsers
Cascading style sheets
Case studies
Chief Information Officers
Chief Technology Officers
Citizen centric services
Click through rates
Climate change
Company registers
Computer files
Computer languages
Computer networks
Congestion levies
Content management
Content management systems
Controlled vocabularies
Conversion rates
Cookies
Copywriting
Crawlers
Cultural festivals
Customer relationship management
Data mining
Datacasting
Deep linking
Deserts
Desktop searches
Dial-up connections
Digital archives
Digital certificates
Digital divide
Digital libraries
Digital signatures
Digital television
Discoverability
Distress beacons
Driver rewards
e-Campaigning
e-Campaigns
e-Democracy
e-Governance
e-Health
Encryption
Enterprise architecture
e-Prescribing
e-Procurement
e-Voting
Extranets
Firewalls
Folksonomies
Forms
Functional specifications
Healthcare awards
HTML
ICT policy
Information architecture
Information retrieval
Information technology governance
Information technology security
Interactive television
Internet governance
Internet service providers
Internet statistics
Interoperability standards
Intranets
Javascripts
Link policies
Link popularity
Linking
Local searches
Manuals
Meta search engines
Metadata
Metadata standards
Multilingual issues
Multilingual websites
Native food industry
Online advertising
Online auctions
Online forms
Ontologies
Open source software
Paintball
PDF
Podcasting
Police checks
Political campaigns
Project management
Raffles
Reciprocal linking
RSS
Safety campaigns
SAML
Search engine marketing
Search engine metrics
Search engine optimisation
Search engines
Semantic web
Smartcards
Spam
Student scholarships
Taxonomies
Teleworking
Thesauri
Toolkits
Urban development
Usability testing
Voice over IP
Web accessibility
Web analytics
Web content
Web pages
Web usability
Website design
Website Management Framework
Website standards
Wireless networks
WML
Writing
Writing for the web
XHTML
XML

Last updated: 6 May 2011

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