Tena tatou katoa
E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga kaitiaki taonga katoa o Aotearoa, nei ra he maioha na matou o te komiti whiriwhiri o Nga Upoko Tukutuku.
The Maori Subject Headings Working Party met in Wellington on the 14th and 15th of May. This was the first meeting of this group, and for some members the first time they had been involved in the process.
Over the two days the group identified a number of requested topics that they will work towards completing for the next upgrade of the thesaurus, currently scheduled for early 2010. These topics fell generally within the areas of ora, tangata and takaro. There will also be some ongoing discussion about the best treatment of the concepts around cultural identity and occupations which proved difficult to fit into the current structure.
Additionally, some work was begun on resolving issues with existing headings: adding scope notes/whakamarama where they had been omitted, clarifying ambiguous references, correcting spelling errors and adding new references. Further work remains to be done on these reported issues, but a good start was made on the list. We will send out a notification once these corrections are available on the thesaurus.
The team will meet twice more in 2009 to continue this work.
Na Charlotte matou ko te komiti whiriwhiri o Nga Upoko Tukutuku
Please excuse the lack of macrons in this email, these have been intentionally omitted to avoid technical issues with some mail clients.
Charlotte Stretton
Cataloguing 2 Team Leader
Content Services
National Library of New Zealand
Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa
P.O. Box 1467
Wellington, New Zealand
charlotte.stretton(a)natlib.govt.nz
Ph: (04) 4743000 x8802
