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Dear All just one amendment to that - the original CBA publication referred to is in fact: 'The British Archaeological Thesaurus' CBA Handbook No. 4, by Cherry Lavell, published in 1989 and BIAB use a frequently-updated version of it to index each BIAB volume, a version not currently publicly available as noted, we will be organising a day-long seminar soon and will be calling for the participation of all organisations and interested individuals across the UK and Republic of Ireland who generate or use ANY archaeological documentation or datasets - this thesaurus is for your use and needs your input (do I sound a bit like Kitchener? must be the proximity to Trafagar Square!) ;-) we will post details to the list as and when they are finalised meanwhile, thanks to Ed for these very useful, project-specific updates best wishes to all Isabel Holroyd This message is from: Isabel M Holroyd Chief Bibliographer & Editor The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB) The British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AH Telephone number (direct): 0207 969 5223 Telephone number (switchboard): 0207 969 5200 Fax (shared): 0207 969 5300 Internet: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/biab To reply to all BIAB staff please use the following e-mail address: [log in to unmask] Thank you. > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee, Edmund [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:56 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: BIAB Mid-Level Thesaurus initiative > > Isabel Holroyd presented the proposed data standard for intangible > concepts > for use in indexing archaeological data and documents that will initially > serve to update and replace the CBA archaeological index currently used > for > indexing British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography abstracts (Cherry > Lavell Council for British Archaeology, 1987). The proposed thesaurus > would > cover the middle ground between the subject specific areas covered by > existing thesauri and the very abstract indexing tools such as the > proposed > HILT standards, or the Dewey Decimal system. > BIAB propose to host a day-long seminar for organisations and other > interested parties from across the UK and Ireland in the Autumn/Winter. > > Discussion identified the work on HEREIN as potentially a useful source > for > the BIAB thesaurus, as it covers policy issues. It was AGREED that FISH > will > support the BIAB proposal.