Library activities: Thesaurus Eurovoc:History

1982	The first preparatory work on Eurovoc development. Specialists from several EU institutions are involved at this stage (European Parliament, EC Committee, Office for Official Publications, DG XIII).
1984	The first version of Eurovoc published in seven languages (English, Danish, French, German, Greek, Dutch, Italian)
1986	Revision of the first version of Eurovoc
1987	The second version of Eurovoc published in nine languages (English, Danish, French, German, Greek, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)
1989	Permutated part for the second version published
1990	Terminograms for the second version published
1990	Updated second edition published (Eurovoc, version 2.1)
1992-1994	Revision of the second edition of Eurovoc
1995	Third edition of Eurovoc published in nine languages
10/1999	Preparation for the revision of the third edition announced, as is a provisional date for issuing the fourth edition (2001)
11/2002	Fourth edition of Eurovoc published in eleven languages
02/2004	Edition 4.1. of Eurovoc published in 16 languages

1993	Preliminary traslation of the second Eurovoc edition into Czech created in the Parliamentary Library
1995	Eurovoc project initiated in the Parliamentary Library (translation of Eurovoc into Czech)
03/1998	Completion of the Eurovoc project - development of Czech Eurovoc version
10/1998	Contract between the Office for Official Publications and the Office of the Chamber of Deputies concerning the licence for distribution of the Czech version
12/1999	Language revision of Czech Eurovoc version 3.0 (development of the revised Czech version of Eurovoc Eurovoc-CZ 2000)
07/2003	Translation of Eurovoc edition 4.0. into the Czech language.
06/2004	Translation of Eurovoc edition 4.1. into the Czech language.

Created by: Anna Lhotska
Last updated: February 10 2005