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Introduction to Vocabularies


A Guide to Enhancing Access to Art and
Material Culture Information

Elisa Lanzi

Revised by Patricia Harpring (2000)

Due to be replaced by Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies in Spring 2010

 

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

This resource will be replaced by Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies in late 2009. Many of the references in the current version are outdated.

The old version, Introduction to Vocabularies (1998), is available in hardcopy from the Getty Bookstore. The new book, Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works, by Patricia Harpring, will be available online and as print-on-demand in Spring 2010. Please write to vocab@getty.edu for further details.

The new book will be a basic primer to controlled vocabularies, covering the following topics in great detail:

  • What are controlled vocabularies and why are they useful?
  • Which controlled vocabularies exist for cataloging art and cultural objects?
  • How should controlled vocabularies be integrated in a cataloging system?
  • How should controlled vocabularies be used for indexing and for retrieval?
  • How should an institution construct a local authority?
 
     
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