Vocabularies produced by other organization and terminology for indexing intangible heritage

British Museum

• British Museum Materials Thesaurus   

Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)

• Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume 

Historic England

• Maritime Place Names

Historic Environment Scotland / Canmore

• Archaeological Objects Thesaurus
• Maritime Craft Thesaurus  
• Monument Type Thesaurus

Getty Research Institute

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
• Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) 
• Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)

Portable Antiquities Scheme

• Denominations (informal list)
• Mints (informal list)
• Rulers (informal list)

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

• Monument Thesaurus 
• Periods (Alphabetical list / Download)

UK Data Service

• Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET)

US Library of Congress

• Subject Headings
• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials 

Intangible Heritage

Examples of glossary resources for recording aspects of intangible cultural heritage. More than one resource may be linked to a subject term, e.g. see ‘War’.

Please let us know if you know of other glossaries that may help with indexing.

• Archival thesaurus, subject terms: UKAT UK
• British Empire: The British Empire
• Disability: Historic England
• Diversity: Pearson Education; Scouts
• Fashion, Middle Eastern, women: RAQS (New Zealand)
• Feminism: KeyWen
• Folklore, American: Library of Congress Ethnographic Thesaurus; English Oxford Reference; Scottish Wikipedia
• Games: ball – KeyWen; traditional – Wikipedia
• Gender, transgender: GLAAD
• Intellectual property: WIPO
• Medicine, history: Science Museum (London)
• Migration: UNESCO; UK – National Archives
• Music: Naxos
• Mythology: Anglo-Saxon – Wikipedia
• Slavery and abolition: The National Archives;  The Abolition Project; The British Library; Understanding Slavery Initiative
• Slang: modern – Septic’s Companion; Edwardian – Edwardian Promenade; prison – The English Project; R.A.F. – Nature Online / James J. MacIsaac
• War: First World War, long glossary – National Archives; Cold War: Global Security / Military; British civil war – BCW Project
• Witchcraft: Blue Moon Manor
• Women: suffrage – British Library

Indexing intangible heritage:

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