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