Folklife and Fieldwork: Resources

These links were created to accompany the 2016 edition of Folklife and Fieldwork: An Introduction to Cultural Documentation (available as a PDF at the link).

Ethics Statements From Scholarly Organizations

• "AFS Statement on Ethics: Principles of Professional Responsibility," American Folklore Society
• American Anthropological Association Ethics Blog (includes a link to the 2012 statement on ethics)
• "Position Statement on Ethical Considerations" (1998), Society for Ethnomusicology
• Standards Portal (statements on best practices), Society of American Archivists
• "Code of Ethics", International Council of Museums
  

Building Documentation

• Guidelines for drawings and photographs of historic buildings (National Park Service)
• Buildings already documented by HABS (Library of Congress)

Examples of Release Forms Used by the American Folklife Center

• From the Occupational Folklife Project: Interviewee Form [PDF, 1p., 144KB], Interviewer Form [PDF, 1p., 113KB]
  
• From the Veterans History Project: Interviewee Form [PDF, 1p., 82KB], Interviewer Form [PDF, 1p., 84KB]
  

Metadata for Archiving Your Collection

• Ethnographic Thesaurus (controlled vocabulary)
  
• Dublin Core: Spreadsheet [Microsoft Excel format] Generator

General Resouces

• American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (see especially, Educational Resource pages)
• American Folklife Center's Veterans History Project, Library of Congress
• American Library Association
  
• Preservation, Library of Congress
  
• Indiana University, Center for the Study of History and Memory
• Louisiana Voices
• Oral History Association: Web Guides to Doing Oral History