![]() Rawson, an Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross and Nick Matte, a historian at the University of Toronto. The DTA was formed in 2008 as a result of a conversation between K. This year, the Homosaurus editorial board will release an abridged version “with only LGBTQ-specific terms, that archives and libraries can use as a supplement to LCSH.” Ĭurrently, the most thorough application of Homosaurus is the Digital Transgender Archive ( DTA), and thus the selection for this extended review. All versions are published in both Dutch and English. From 2013 to 2015 Jack van der Wel and Ellen Greenblatt revised, edited, and transformed the vocabulary into linked data. The resulting project, Queer Thesaurus: An International Thesaurus of Gay and Lesbian Index Terms (1997) was edited by Ko van Staalduinen, Henny Brandhorst, and Anja Jansma. Upon their union, the newly-formed IHLIA (now called IHLIA LGBT Heritage) discovered a need to describe their combined collection, but found that there were little to no applicable subject terms. Two separate institutions-the Homodok research library at the University of Amsterdam and the Anna Blaman Huis of Friesland-pooled resources for LGBTQ+ history to form IHLIA, creating one of the most extensive queer-specific library and archives in the world. ![]() Despite this modern form, it has deep historical roots: it is based on the internal thesaurus of Netherland’s International Homo/Lesbian Information Centre & Archives (IHLIA). Homosaurus is a linked data vocabulary used as a controlled vocabulary on the Digital Transgender Archive. Reviewed by Brian Watson, Archivist-Historian, and Researcher at the Kinsey Institute Library
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