AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. 2nd ed., 2002 revision. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002.
Note: AACR2 has been rewritten under the title RDA: Resource Description and Access. Follow the RDA Toolkit for news and information on RDA.
ACRL/RBMS Genre Terms
Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging [online edition]. Prepared by the American Library Association (ALA)/Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Bibliographic Standards Committee if the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraies, 1991. https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm (1 August 2024).
Allgemeines KĂĽnstlerlexikon (AKL)
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Internationale Künstlerdatenbank [online edition]. Andreas Beyer, Bénédicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff, eds. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2009-. https://www.degruyter.com/database/akl/html?lang=en (1 August 2024).
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
Getty Vocabulary Program. Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) [online]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2021-. https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat (1 August 2024).
Art & Architecture Thesaurs (AAT): Editorial Rules
Getty Vocabulary Program. Art & Architecture Thesaurus Editorial Guidelines [online]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2024-. https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/guidelines/index.html#aat (1 August 2024).
Base Mérimée: Lexique
Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France, Paris. Base Mérimée: lexique d’interrogation pour les champs: Dénomination, Parties constituantes, Ouvrages remarquables. Catherine Chaplain et al., eds. Paris: Ministère de la Culture, 1995.
Bénézit
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Edited by Emmanuel Bénézit. Originally published 1911-1913. Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1976.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists [online edition]. Valerie Cassel Oliver, ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2024-. https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit (1 August 2024).
Biography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d’histoire de l’art (BHA)
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire international de la littérature de l’art (RILA) [online edition]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2007-. https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/search?vid=BHA (1 August 2024).
British Archaeological Thesaurus
Lavell, Cherry. British Archaeological Thesaurus: For Use with British Archaeological Absracts, and Other Publications in British Archaeology. (Practical handbooks in archaeology; no. 4.) London: Council for British Archaeology, 1989.
Canadiana Authorities
National Library of Canada. Canadiana Authorities/Canadiana, vedettes d’authorité. Ottawa: National Library of Canada Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1979-.
Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
Cataloging Cultural Objects: Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images. Edited by Murtha Baca, Patricia Harping, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, Ann Baird Whiteside. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006.
Note: Additional information about CCO can be found here.
Dictionarium Museologicum
Dictionarium Museologicum. Compiled by the Working Group on Terminology of ICOM’s International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC). Budapest: International Council of Museums, 1986.
FDA Guide
Porter, Vicki and Robin Thomas. A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings [online edition], 2024. https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/fda/ (1 August 2024).
Porter, Vicki and Robin Thomas. Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings. New York: G.K. Hall & Company, 1994.
Garnier’s Thesaurus Iconographique
Garnier, François. Thesaurus iconographique: système descriptif des représentations. Paris: Le Leopard d’or, 1984.
Note: A digitized version of this volume is available here via the Internet Archive.
Geographic Names Server (GNS)
Geographic Names Server [online]. Springfield: National Geosptial-Intelligence Agency, 2024-. https://geonames.nga.mil/geonames/GNSHome/welcome.html (2 August 2024).
Grove Dictionary of Art
Grove Art Online [online edition]. Judith Rodenbeck, ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2004. https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart (1 August 2024).
Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. Jane Turner, ed. New York: Grove, 1996.
ICONCLASS
ICONCLASS [online]. 4th ed. Voorschoten: ICONCLASS, 2024-. https://iconclass.org/ (2 August 2024).
ICONCLASS: An Iconographical Classification System. Edited by H. van deWaal, D. Couprie, E. Tholen, G. Vellekoop. Amsterdam and New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1973-1985.
Index of Jewish Art
The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art [online]. Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art, 2024-. https://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php (1 August 2024).
Narkiss, Bezalel. Index of Jewish Art: An Iconographical Index of Hebrew Illustrated Manuscripts. Jerusalem and Paris: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 1976-1988.
Intro to Art Image Access
Layne, Sara Shatford, Patricia Harping, Colum Hourihane, and Christine L. Sundt. Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies. Online ed. Edited by Murtha Baca. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2002. https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intro_aia/ (2 August 2024).
Intro to Imaging
Besser, Howard. Introduction to Imaging. Revised online ed. Edited by Sally Hubbard and Deborah Lenert. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2003. https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/introimages/ (2 August 2024).
Intro to Metadata
Introduction to Metadata. 3rd ed. Edited by Murtha Baca. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016. https://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/ (2 August 2024).
Intro to Vocabularies
Harping, Patricia. Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works. Online ed. Edited by Murtha Baca. Los Angeles: Getty Research Instiute, 2010. https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intro_controlled_vocab/ (2 August 2024).
Note: Additional information and training materials for the Getty Vocabularies can be found here.
ISO 8601: Dates and Times
ISO 8601: 2004 Representation of Dates and Times. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization, 2004.
LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
“Thesaurus for Graphic Materials.” Library of Congress [online], 2024-. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/about.html (2 August 2024).
Descriptive Terms for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristic Heading. Compiled by Helen Zinkham and Elizabeth Betz Parker (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, 1986.
LC Name Authority and Subject Headings
Library of Congress Authorities [online]. Washington, D.C: Library of Congress, 2024-. https://authorities.loc.gov/ (2 August 2024).
Moving Image Materials
Library of Congress AMIM Revision Committee. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual. Edited by Wendy White-Hensen. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2000.
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging/Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée [online edition], 2024. https://page.nomenclature.info/index.app (1 August 2024).
Thesarus of Geographic Names (TGN)
Getty Vocabulary Program. Thesaurus of Geographic Names [online]. Los Angeles: Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2017-. https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html (2 August 2024).
Thesarus of Geographic Names (TGN): Editorial Guidelines
Getty Vocabulary Program. Thesaurus of Geographic Names Editorial Guidelines [online]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2024-.
Thieme-Becker
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden KĂĽnstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Reprint of 1907 ed. 37 vols. Leipzig: Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980-1986.
Note: A digitized version of the original 1907 volume is available here via the Internet Archive.
Tozzer Library Headings
Tozzer Library. Tozzer Index to Anthropological Subject Headings, Harvard University. 2nd revised ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
Getty Vocabulary Program. Thesaurus of Geographic Names [online]. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2017-. https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/ (2 August 2024).
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN): Editorial Guidelines
Getty Vocabulary Program. Union List of Artist Names Editorial Guidelines [online]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2024-. https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/guidelines/index.html#ulan (2 August 2024).
USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Geographic Names Information System [online]. Washington, D.C.: United States Geological Survey, 2024-. https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-system-gnis (2 August 2024).
V&A Subject Index for the Visual Arts
Subject Index for the Visual Arts. Edited by Elizabeth Glass, Victoria & Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings. London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1969.
W3 Dates Schema
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes [online]. 2nd ed. Edited by Paul V. Biron and Ashok Malhotra. Cambridge: WC3, 2004. https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ (2 August 2024).
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