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A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Hundreds of new terms added to the Ethnographic Thesaurus

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

This is a guest post by Catherine H. Kerst, an American Folklife Center cataloger who oversees the American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus. In January 2016, a new version (2.2) of the American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus was posted to the Library of Congress’s linked data site. With this update, we added hundreds of subject terms, and …