In order to participate in the Fall 2000 Washington State Databases Trial, each vendor was asked to address questions the Statewide Database Licensing Committee felt were most critical in order for library staff to evaluate products and vendors. In this age of cultural diversity, information about different world cultures and different subject topics makes the Collection of Ethnography on the Web an attractive database for many disciplines.
Topics range from family relationships to political organizations to ideas about gender.
The Collection of Ethnography on the Web, therefore, is not only valuable to the social sciences, but also to medicine, law, humanities, ethnic minority studies, religious studies, and other disciplines. The Search Interface of the HRAF Electronic Collections on the Web The Collection of Ethnography and Collection of Archaeology on the Web include different search options such as basic, proximity, Boolean, subject searches, and others to search a particular topic on a culture. HRAF electronic collections are number-indexed by subject to the paragraph level to provide quick retrieval of information. The electronic collections make excellent research, teaching, and distance learning tools. The Web version may be used with any Web browser.