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Congratulations Allison and all the working group members on getting this important work flying! Richard On 7/22/2014 1:49 PM, Allison Jai O'Dell wrote: > *Please excuse cross-postings* > > > ARLIS/NA Artists’ Books Thesaurus > > By Jaye Fishel, Esther Marie Jackson, Allison Jai O’Dell, Suzanne > Rackover, and Heather Slania > > 22 July 2014 > > The ARLIS/NA Book Arts Special Interest Group (SIG) Artists’ Books > Thesaurus Working Group would like to announce the release of the > online demo of the ARLIS/NA Artists’ Books Thesaurus. The Artists’ > Books Thesauruswill offer a much-needed vocabulary for indexing > artists’ books and their features. The working draft and interface > demo is available at: http://tinyurl.com/abthes. > > > This web-based delivery platform will offer an illustrated, > user-friendly guide to exploring and finding vocabulary terms. While > all terms will be illustrated, with multiple examples, we have only > illustrated select terms to use as demonstrations. See “Kikko-toji,” > “French door books,” or “Concertina bindings.” Scope notes are > currently available from A - “Pop-up books.” Exports are available in > SKOS, DC, MADS, Zthes, XTM, and VDEX formats. > > The project was spearheaded at the Book Arts SIG meeting of the 2012 > Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Conference, > “Colouring Outside the Lines,” March 29-April 2, 2012 in Toronto, > Ontario. A working group of the Book Arts SIG has worked diligently > for two years to create a comprehensive thesaurus specifically for use > in cataloging and scholarship of artists’ books. Progress updates and > calls for feedback were given at the 2013 and 2014 ARLIS/NA conferences. > > The Working Group will be sending out calls for comments in the coming > months once the draft is completed. The ARLIS/NA community and its > extended family of libraries, archives, and museums will also be > invited to contribute images and videos for illustrating the thesaurus. > > > Contact > > To learn more about this project, please contact the working group > members. > > Jaye Fishel: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > Esther Marie Jackson: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > Allison Jai O’Dell: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > Suzanne Rackover: [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > Heather Slania: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~