{"id":224,"date":"2019-02-13T22:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliehardesty.com\/notions\/?p=224"},"modified":"2019-02-13T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:30:37","slug":"gathering-and-connecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliehardesty.com\/notions\/gathering-and-connecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering and connecting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow, today. I found the best Venn diagram from Hope A. Olson<\/a> comparing the “mainstream core” perspective offered through classifications like DDC and LCC and controlled vocabs like LCSH to what that \u201ccore\u201d actually represents. Its a smaller set within the entirety of Everyone and limited to the following Boolean combination:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

white AND male AND straight AND European AND Christian AND middle-class AND able-bodied AND Anglo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result is a very tiny splotch within all of those concentric circles. It\u2019s pretty awesome and I have needed this in my life before now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also got my hands on two separate thesauri for women\u2019s issues (On Equal Terms: A Thesaurus for Nonsexist Indexing and Cataloging<\/em> from 1977 compiled by Joan K. Marshall and The Women\u2019s Thesaurus<\/em> from 1987 edited by Mary Ellen S. Capek). I\u2019m interested to see what the differences are between them. They are both in print but The Women\u2019s Thesaurus<\/em> might have been adapted for online use at Atria<\/a> from the Institute on gender equality and women\u2019s history in the Netherlands. I’m still figuring that out for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also sorted out various LGBTQ thesaurus sources from my readings (and in my head). There\u2019s a classification scheme by Dee Michel and David Moore (International Gay and Lesbian Archives Classification System<\/em>) and there\u2019s another thesaurus from the Netherlands (A Queer Thesaurus: An International Thesaurus of Gay and Lesbian Index Terms<\/em>) that has become a Linked Data vocabulary called Homosaurus.org<\/a>. The College of the Holy Cross<\/a> is now hosting that Linked Data vocabulary online and I still need to check it out some more but IHLIA<\/a> in Amsterdam is using it to support online searching<\/a>. I like their concept of supplying Broader Terms, Related Topics, Narrower Terms, and Used For in that visual way. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a way to activate that without conducting a search first so you don\u2019t start off with that help, but it is an example implementation of controlled vocabulary help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also seeing that some controlled vocabularies are supplying connections to LCSH. The BC First Nations Subject Headings<\/a> from the Xwi7xwa Library at the University of British Columbia is in PDF format online but identifies connected terms from LCSH. And the Lavender Library, Archives and Cultural Exchange<\/a> in Sacramento, California has finding aids<\/a> that include LC subject headings along with their own subject headings. The only reason I know anything about the Lavender Library is because the LGBTQ+ Library at Indiana University<\/a> uses a classification system based on the one used at Lavender Library (called the LLACE Classification Scheme after the full name of the library) and they were awesome and shared it with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve also encountered some vocabularies that are discussed but don\u2019t seem to be available (at least not to me). EBSCO has a thesaurus for its LGBT Life<\/em> resource but I cannot come up with the thesaurus no matter what I try so I don\u2019t think we have access to that through my institution (we have access to the contents of LGBT Life<\/em> but not the thesaurus). It was mentioned in one of my readings and would be good to see but it doesn\u2019t look like an option for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My list of classification systems and controlled vocabularies is growing and getting a little more organized but I have more to review and learn about and a lot more to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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