I. Mission

• The CJK SACO Funnel Project enables member institutions to submit proposals for additions to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), LC Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT), LC Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT), LC Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT), and LC Classification (LCC) schedules, focusing on East Asian area studies. In light of the linked data development, SACO supports the creation of controlled vocabularies, genre terms, faceted vocabularies and URIs. The Project’s goal is to develop a working model, and cooperate more systematically in order to propose new terms particularly pertaining to publications in CJK languages and/or on East Asian studies, that could be incorporated in the Library of Congress thesauri. The Project highly encourages and promotes the collaboration between CJK catalogers, Asian studies librarians and scholars. All participants and non-participants can suggest ideas of new or enhanced subject terms on SACO Proposal Form. The Funnel CORE members will finalize the proposal and submit to the LC online system. Any one interested in becoming a participant in the Funnel Project can contact the Project coordinator. 

• SACO Proposal Form 

 

II. Current Coordinators

• Naomi Shiraishi, University of California, Berkeley, nshiraishi@berkeley.edu
• Charlene Chou, NYU, Charlene.Chou@nyu.edu 

 

III. Current Institution Participants

• Cambridge University (UkCU-FN-CJK)
• Getty Research Institute (CMalG-FN-CJK)
• Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Library (MH-HY-FN-CJK)
• New York University (NNU-CJK)
• Stanford University, East Asian Library (CaStEAL-FN-CJK)
• University of California, Berkeley, C.V. Starr East Asian Library (CU-EAST)
• University of California, San Diego (CU-S-FN-CJK)
• University of Hawaiian (HU-FN-CJK)
• University of Southern California, East Asian Library (CaLaUEA-FN-CJK)
• Yale University (CtY-FN-CJK)

 

IV. Current Individual Participants (Members who want to join even though their institution already participates in SACO. Separate profiles were created to show their participation in the SACO CJK Funnel.) 

• Erminia Chao, Brigham Young University (UPB-FN-CJK)
• Amalia Contursi, Princeton University (NjP-FN-CJK)
• Mary Campany, Cornell University (NIC-FN-CJK) 

 

V. Implementation Team

• Charlene Chou (NYU), Lia Contursi (Princeton), Shi Deng (UCSD), Stella Tang (UC Berkeley) and Jia Xu (Yale)

 

VI. Training sessions in 2020 (Trainer: Janis Young from Library of Congress)

• July 27-28, 1-4 p.m. ET: Proposing New and Revised Topical Subject Headings
  Session 1 & 2 Handout Topical proposals for CJK SACO Funnel.pdf
  Session 1 & 2 Exercises Topical proposals for CJK SACO Funnel.docx
  
  
• August 3-4, 1-4 p.m. ET: Proposing New and Revised Geographic Subject Headings
  Session 3 & 4 Handout Geographic proposals for CJK SACO Funnel.pdf
  Session 3 & 4 Exercises Geographic proposals for CJK SACO Funnel.doc
  
  
• August 17-18, 1-4 p.m. ET: Proposing New and Revised Classification Numbers
  Session 5 & 6 Class proposal handout for CJK SACO Funnel.pdf
  Classification Answer key to Exercise #2.docx
  Additional exercises (requested).docx
  
  
• August 24, 1-4 p.m. ET: Using the Proposal System
  Using the proposal system exercises for CJK SACO Funnel.docx

 

VII. Discussion examples: new terms to propose [Under Development]

 

VIII. Best practices [Under Development]