Canadian Immigration and Citizenship Indexing Terms

"The Canadian Immigration and Citizenship Indexing Terms is a bilingual standardized vocabulary developed to facilitate the indexing and retrieval of resources available from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). In addition to the indexing and searching functions, the Indexing Terms is meant to clarify terminology and provide a standard, common language for use within the fields of citizenship and immigration. The Canadian Immigration and Citizenship Indexing Terms is meant to be used as a source of standardized terminology for the production of indexes to information resources in all media. The standardization of the external form and the meaning of index terms will result in a consistent representation of a particular concept or subject within the index."