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DeVorsey, K.L.; Elson, C.; Gregorev, N.P.; Hansen, J.: ¬The development of a local thesaurus to improve access to the anthropological collections of the American Museum of Natural History (2006) 0.00
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Abstract

The anthropology collection of the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has been systematically acquired over the past 136 years by many of the founders of the discipline, including Franz Boaz and Margaret Mead. Currently it is represented by over 500,000 catalog entries that were created at the same time artifacts were processed and accessioned. Information about each artifact was recorded by hand in bound ledger books. While the introduction of a computerized collections database at the AMNH has dramatically improved access to cataloging information, the absence of controlled vocabularies to describe anthropological collections, the cultures that created them, and their places of origin has hindered the ability of both staff and scholars to conduct research. This absence can be traced to the traditional museum idea that each object is "unique", compared to books, which are assumed to be identical within an edition and can therefore be described with standard bibliographic entries. This article describes a project begun in the spring of 2004 that set out to address these problems through the creation of a searchable, hierarchical thesaurus of terms linked to the individual object records located on the division's website at <http://anthro.amnh.org/>. The ultimate goal was not to replace the existing database search mechanisms, but instead to provide an additional access point that allows users to virtually browse through the collections. This eliminates the need for researchers to be familiar with the inconsistent and sometimes archaic terminology originally used to describe the artifacts, and we expect that the thesaurus will enable new avenues of research to be pursued by a much wider audience than previously possible.