The Strategic Role of Thesauruses in the Management of Reference Resources

Attempts to conduct research and promote Islamic culture and knowledge at a comprehensive level, through using well-known scientific principles and transnational experiences, and avoiding local personal viewpoints, have always been the focus of thinkers. The question is, "Is there any other way to increase scientific productivity and decrease high costs of management of reference sources such as encyclopedias and dictionaries and the like, and how to carry out research and compile them in the Islamic field, apart from what is common today?" To answer this question, the author deals with the extraordinary role of the well-known thesaurus machine and its method in managing, designing, and compiling reference sources and emphasizes its importance in utilizing information and knowledge studies.
He believes that this standard creates a fundamental change in the management, organization, logic, and structure of reference works in the field of religion. Therefore, it is considered an effective stage in such scientific research, and analyzes and examines this strategy through providing examples of Quranic sciences.