[ARSCLIST] Announce: The Ethnographic Thesaurus Goes Live!

[Stephanie Aileen Hall <shal@xxxxxxx>]

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Ethnographic Thesaurus Goes Live!

The American Folklore Society is pleased to announce that the Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a dynamically-searchable draft version on the Society's website at: http://et.afsnet.org/.

The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a hierarchical listing of subject terms from folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Thesaurus will improve access to cultural materials and scholarship by
affording researchers, archivists, indexers, librarians, and others a common language for description.

During the past three years, The American Folklore Society developed the Thesaurus in cooperation with the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, supported by a generous grant from the Scholarly Communications Program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The editorial board of the Ethnographic Thesaurus welcomes your comments on existing thesaurus terms and your recommendations for terms to be added in the future. You can make comments and recommendations directly from the Thesaurus section of the American Folklore Society website.


Catherine Hiebert Kerst
Michael Taft
Ethnographic Thesaurus Advisory Committee



Please do not reply to to this message. Queries about the project may be posted on the Ethnographic Thesaurus site or emailed to contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Stephanie A. Hall
Librarian: Automated Reference Specialist
American Folklife Center   http://www.loc.gov/folklife
Library of Congress           shal@xxxxxxx