This compendium of examples is intended as a companion to the Tutorial. The examples have been collected from various resources in order to illustrate the diversity of documentation practice and types of standards.

NOTE: This chapter refers to several projects that are no longer active or have changed since the time of writing, and links to them have been removed. It will be updated in 2006. Some of the remaining examples are outside Introduction to Vocabularies. Clicking on the links below when accessing this online will cause a new browser window to open.

EXAMPLE 1: Archival finding aid

View an example of an archival finding aid from a historical society. (Link removed.)

EXAMPLE 2: Book cataloging records

Here is an example of a cataloging record for the book, Mycenaen art from Cyprus. The record is displayed in MARC format from the Williams College Library Catalog:

(Williams College Libraries, http://www.williams.edu/library/.)

Below is an exhibition catalog record display from the University of Texas at Austin OPAC:

(University of Texas at Austin Libraries, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/.)

EXAMPLE 3: Museum object record

This is a museum object record from the collection management database of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, http://www.mfa.org/)

EXAMPLE 4: Visual Resources cataloging record

You can find, and View an example of a Visual Resources cataloging record from the SPIRO database at the University of California at Berkeley (http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/).

EXAMPLE 5: Classification on the Web

Visit Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/) to view an example of how a Web Guide uses classification to organize information

EXAMPLE 6: Data structure

View the outline of the Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/2_overview/index.html.

EXAMPLE 7: Data content standards

Here are two examples of published standards used to govern data content.

Sample page from the "Headings for Persons" section of Anglo American Cataloging Rules, second edition 1988 revison (AACR2), p. 387:

Below is a sample page from the "Headings for Corporate Bodies" section in Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts, p. 88–89:

EXAMPLE 8: Data value standard

View an example of a data value standard, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/.

EXAMPLE 9: Data standards at work

View an example of data standards working together in a cataloging record for a manuscript collection. In creating this record the cataloger used the MARC format (data structure), the LCSH (data value), and AACR2 (data content). From the Getty Research Institute IRIS database. (Link removed.)

EXAMPLE 10: Subject heading list

The following example is excerpted from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), 18th edition, 1995:

EXAMPLE 11: Thesaurus

View the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) hierarchy display. (Link removed.)

EXAMPLE 12: A Classification

The following is a section from The Revised Nomenclature For Museum Cataloging : A Revised And
Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall’s System for Classifying Man-Made Objects.
Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1995, p. 9:

EXAMPLE 13: Term List

Visit the SPIRO online visual database at the University of California at Berkeley to view an example of a term list: http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/spiro_subj/spirobuild.html.

EXAMPLE 14: Authority File

Here is an authority file record from the Library of Congress Name Authority File (NAF) for the author, umberto Eco. Note the variant names (Eko, Umberto, etc.) and the sources of the information (Notes):

(Library of Congress Authorities, http://authorities.loc.gov.)