Thanks Jasmine and Allison -- this is very helpful.

I was totally barking up the wrong tree. Tone charts lend themselves to all
sorts of possibilities both at the the metadata and discovery levels. I
don't know what we'll wind up doing, but it's hard to imagine we won't
incorporate at least some of this logic. Would be killer if a diagnostic
tool like VisualDX had this built in as this makes more sense as a limiter
than some of the other stuff.

kyle

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:29 PM Allison Morrissey <[log in to unmask]>
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> For skin pigmentation, perhaps the Fitzpatrick scale?
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 4:18 PM Kirby, Jasmine S [LIB] <[log in to unmask]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Maybe https://www.fentybeauty.com/shade-finder.html since it has
> numbers.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Kyle
> > Banerjee
> > Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 15:13
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Controlled vocab useful for describing skin tone
> >
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > I'm trying to wrap my mind around an image project that allows clinicians
> > and students to see how different medical conditions visually manifest
> > themselves on different skin tones and types.
> >
> > I suspect we'll use ICD-10 to describe conditions, but I'm curious as to
> > what recommendations people might have for a relatively simple skin color
> > vocab. It's conceivable to SNOMED for that, but the terms are very broad
> > and the terms are driven by race more than color.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks,
> >
> > kyle
> >
>