[ARSCLIST] FW: Ethnographic Thesaurus project

["Nelson-Strauss, Brenda" <bnelsons@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarded on behalf of Laurel Sercombe: 


     The Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET), a comprehensive controlled list of
subject terms to be used in describing ethnographic and ethnological
research collections, is a cooperative project of the American Folklore
Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
currently in its second year of development.  Support for the project
is provided through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to
develop a thesaurus that folklorists, ethnomusicologists, archivists,
librarians, and researchers of all kinds can use to classify cultural
information.  An advisory board oversees the ET staff of four that
includes a lexicographer, two subjects specialists, and a database
manager.

    For more information about the  Ethnographic Thesaurus, please see
our website at www.etproject.org or  sign up for our mailing list at
http://listserv.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ethnographic-thesaurus-l&A=1


 
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