[dlpdev] Casbah

[Fabian Tompsett]

As regards keywords and the Unesco theasaurus this is some work which Carol Dixon did for Casbah looking at developing the Unesco Theasaurus for these areas.

http://www.casbah.ac.uk/IndexingMay2002.doc

There is a long process of peer review. I draw your attention to this in particular:

"Throughout the development of the CASBAH online database the project has sought to record methodologies and practices which will benefit individuals and organisations interested in the study of the Caribbean and the history of Black and Asian peoples in Britain. A key objective within the project's archive module has been to develop a thesaurus of terms for use in the CASBAH subject areas and contribute to the work of other projects involved in national thesaurus initiatives. Consequently all the non-UNESCO Thesaurus terms added to the CASBAH subject index (see Appendix 2) have been submitted to national bodies such as the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA) Research Resources Working Party and the UNESCO Thesaurus Working Party for dissemination, discussion and peer review within the UK information sector. It is hoped that many of these terms will be incorporated into the database of  'New terms added to the UNESCO Thesaurus', administered by the Public Record Office, and available online at: http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/unesco/introduction.htm. 
Ultimately this could lead to inclusion of the terms within a national thesaurus for the UK archives sector, currently being developed by the UNESCO Thesaurus Working Party."

As the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA) Research Resources Working Party is not a functioning body (as much through lack of funding as anything else), some these things may be more wishful than actual.

Indeed it was following spending some time on this that the prospect of an anti-systemic library became so enticing.

Fabian


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