At the risk of saying something that might upset people because it mentions commercial companies...
Nick, you may have alwready tried this but... have you ever talked to Google or Microsoft about funding for such basic infrastructure as the controlled vocabularies & mapping them? Especially since Google is beginning to go down the semantic route...
It could be put forward as an important and sexy project. I'm sure that Jon, if he were at all involved in such a project, would be able to describe the project in a way that would bring out the ecstatic gorgeousness of meaningful, structured words relating to culture :-)
There may be ethical reasons why you wouldn't want funding from one of the big companies - but help from the big search company, perhaps with some from Europe as well - would enable things to get done relatively quickly. Of course it would need to be a living, continuing thing, but the framework for the way that it goes forward could also be set up whilst doing such a project.
Forgive me for saying the obvious if you've already tried such a route to no avail or agreed it's not desirable.
Janet
Janet E Davis
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