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The Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) is a three-level hierarchical thesaurus that describes the business functions carried out across Commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia.

It contains 25 high-level functions, each with second and third level terms, as well as non-preferred terms and related terms. Its main purpose is to describe web-based resources to aid online discovery of government information and services.

Terms can be searched by function, alphabetically and via full-text searching.

In the thesaurus you will find:

  • Function – the broadest unit of  business performed by Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus
  • Level 2 – major tasks or areas of service undertaken within each function
  • Level 3 – topics being addressed within function/activities
For each term, the thesaurus shows:
  • Scope Notes – notes that provide guidance on the use of a term
  • Broader Terms – terms at a higher level
  • Narrower Terms – terms at a lower level
  • Related Terms – terms at the same level
  • Use – approved terms used to identify and save documents
  • Non-preferred Term – other terms, not to be used to identify and save documents
See the AGIFT introductory page for more information.

Indemnity Statement

If you choose to download AGIFT, you agree that the National Archives of Australia accepts no responsibility for problems that may occur during installation of the thesaurus, or its subsequent use within your systems.

Copyright Statement

This work is copyright. It may be adapted or reproduced for personal, in-house or non-commercial use without formal permission subject to appropriate citation. The work may not be used for other purposes – apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 – without prior written permission from the National Archives of Australia. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be sent to the Agency Service Centre or the Publications Manager, National Archives of Australia, PO Box 7425, Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610, Australia.

This publication should be cited as: National Archives of Australia, Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus, 2nd Edition, September 2005.