What People-Group Database Does Diveristy Atlas Use?
The database has drawn from a range of sources including Ethnologue, AIATSIS (The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), the UN and also many years of ongoing research by various members and partners of Diversity Atlas. An important feature of the databases is the ongoing coding and grouping of data according to zones, relational aspect and, where possible, the flow of communities across the globe.
Some entries such as ‘Black British’ came about after feedback from our participants. If any new cultural group is brought to our attention, we ensure research is conducted, citations and references noted, and our panel of SME’s are in agreeance before they are added to our database. This most wonderful act of ‘citizen science’ quite often brings forth real-world cultural identities than western academia has thus far ignored or failed to include.
Our database is an ongoing work, representative of our lifetime commitment to Diversity Atlas becoming a repository for all data around languages, speech communities, worldviews/religions, cultural heritage and national identities, which will ultimately help us to understand the human journey to its fullest.
