The Conceptual Network of Descriptors of Religious Records(At the Iran National Archives)

To identify the conceptual-lexical network and the semantic relationships of the thesaurus at Iran National Archives.

Qualitative Contents Analysis applied in order to identify and analyse ontological relationships. Data was collected using a checklist and analysed using RaverMatrix software to make matrix of concept-word and protege 5 for extracting, analysing and delineating lexical concepts.

Qualitative Contents Analysis is suitable for determining "ultra-category, sub-category" in constructing ontologies for religious documents. For the Network conceptualization, the semantic, horizontal, lexical relationships between the indexes and the descriptors of the religious records were constructed and drawn up using Protege 5 software in the standard languages of O.W.L. and R.D.F. The conceptual network of religious records was designed to be used as a standard tool for information storage and retrieval.