Controlled vocabularies are the blood coursing
through the veins of professional cataloging and archival
description. The Library of Congress Subject Headings is the
authority. While staff were processing interviews from the Kentucky Bourbon
Tales Oral History Project, the University of Kentucky Libraries Louie
B. Nunn Center for Oral History discovered a major problem - no LOC Subject
Heading for Bourbon whiskey! Catalogers and metadata specialists around
the world were forced to use the ambiguous and misleading term
"Whiskey" to describe something that was declared by US Congress in
1964 to be an indigenous product of the United States. All Bourbon
is whiskey, but not all whiskey is Bourbon. This video reveals the
Nunn Center's epic journey to give Bourbon whiskey its
rightful place in the LOC Subject Headings.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
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