Beer Crafting - Drexel University

Beer Crafting

Alicemarie Collins INFO 622: Content Representation

March 18, 2012

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Table of Contents

Introduction...........................................................................................3 Intent of Thesaurus...................................................................................3 Use of Thesaurus......................................................................................4 Hierarchical display of terms........................................................................6 Alphabetical display of terms.......................................................................9 Appendix.............................................................................................24 References............................................................................................28

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Introduction Beer is food, filled with vitamins, minerals, proteins and antioxidants. Many anthropologists believe that growing grain for beer encouraged societies to change from hunter-gatherer to agricultural. Beer dates back 10,000 years and there are records of brewing from 6,000 years ago in Ancient Sumeria. Although beer brewing has been around for several thousand years, beer crafting has a much shorter history. There are craft breweries all over the world. Beer has been used as a food source, in religious ceremonies and for pleasure. A whole industry has arisen out of the keen interest in craft beers. There are books, websites, restaurants and more all dedicated to spreading the word and consumption of what was once a life sustaining liquid.

Intent of Thesaurus This thesaurus is a prototype created as part of a Content Representation class at Drexel University. Various resources were used to compile this thesaurus. It is meant as a guide to navigate the maze known as beer and the subsequent practices of home brewing and craft brewing. It is an attempt to begin to formalize the reams of information available on this topic. This thesaurus is not comprehensive. Hopefully, however, it will offer a cross section of the different varieties of beer, insight into how beer is made and the many steps necessary to brew that "tall, cold one" you grab after a hard day. More importantly, it should give you a greater appreciation for that nutty flavored liquid you've been meaning to try at your local eatery.

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Use of the Thesaurus

A thesaurus has a specified set up. This standardization allows a novice to explore

a term, its various facets, its relation to those facets and the meanings of the term and its

various facets. It also allows indexers to easily use the thesaurus to classify resources

related to their subject, in this case all things beer. There is a hierarchical display and an

alphabetical display. The hierarchical display is where the terms and their facets are laid

out. The alphabetical display explains them. For example, below is a hierarchical sample.

Beers Ales

Altbiers American Ales

American Pale Ales American Strong Ales

From this sample we can surmise one type of beer is ale, one of the forms is American

Ale which comes as an American Pale Ale or an American Strong Ale. The alphabetical

display found below the hierarchical display clarifies the hierarchical terms and their

relationships. Each term in the alphabetical display will have a Scope Note (SN), a

definition. They may also have a Broader Term (BT), a category used to describe the

Narrower Term (NT), a specific example of a BT. You might see a Related Term (RT), a

word that has a relationship to the bolded term. There is also Use (U), a means of

pointing to the more preferred thesaurus term. Finally, there is Used For (UF), a means to

show the preferred term instead of its synonym. So the key is as follows:

SN equals Scope Note, a definition of the term BT equals Broader Term, a category used to describe more specific terms (i.e. kind of) NT equals Narrower Term, a specific example of the given term (i.e. type of, form of) RT equals Related Term, a word that has a relationship to the bolded term (i.e. is also a kind of) U equals Use, a means of pointing to the more preferred thesaurus term UF equals Used For, a means to show the preferred terms instead of its synonym

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Ales SN beer made with ale yeast. It has fruiter and more aromatic notes than a lager. BT NT altbiers

American Ales barley Wines Belgian Ales IPA k?lsches saisons RT lagers lambics porters stouts wits

Applying the key to the example above one can surmise that ale is a beer made with ale

yeast. Ale is a kind of beer, so beer is your BT. Also lagers, lambics, porters, stouts and

wits are kinds of beers. Therefore ales, lagers, lambics, porters, stouts and wits are

related. Thus you find lagers, lambics, porters, stouts and wits under RT. There are

different types of ales. These include altbiers, American ales, barley wines, Belgian ales,

IPA , k?lsches and saisons. Because these are specific examples of ales they are found

under NT. Below are examples of U and UF. Alcohol is a synonym for fermentation.

Fermentation is the preferred term over its synonym alcohol.

alcohol U fermentation fermentation SN the use of yeast to change sugar into alcohol UF alcohol BT brewing process NT attenuation

primary fermentation secondary fermentation spontaneous fermentation

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