The Getty Standards and Digital Resource Management Program works to enhance access to information on the visual arts and related disciplines by promoting standards and practices and developing tools and guidelines for developing, managing, preserving, and delivering information in electronic form.

Categories for the Description of Works of Art
Guidelines for the description of art objects and images, including a discussion of issues involved in building art information systems.

A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
Guidelines, conventions, and standards for describing architectural drawings and documents, with examples and recommendations for authority files and controlled vocabularies.

Introduction to Archival Organization and Description
An introduction to the principles of organization and description used in archives and archival collections.

Introduction to Art Image Access
An online publication that addresses the issues that underlie the intellectual process of documenting a visual collection to make it accessible in an electronic environment.

Introduction to Imaging (Revised Edition)
An online publication that introduces the technology of digital imaging and creating an image library.

Introduction to Metadata
An online publication devoted to metadata, its types and uses, and how it can improve access to digital resources.

Metadata Standards Crosswalk
A mapping of elements from different metadata schemas to facilitate semantic interoperability and cross-repository searching.

Introduction to Vocabularies
An overview of thesauri and other structured vocabularies used to provide access to art and material culture information.

Digitized Library Collections
Groupings of records, most linked to images, representing objects from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, accompanied by contextual and historical information.