AATA

AATA dates to 1932 and the publication, Technical Studies in the Field of the Fine Arts. Over time, records from Technical Studies merged with those from other sources as AATA changed publishers, until arriving at Getty in 1983. When Getty became AATA’s publisher, it pursued the goal of providing an electronic publication to the field. In 2002, AATA Online was launched as a free research resource. Today it is known as AATA and managed by staff at the Conservation Institute.

AATA includes:

• over 170,000 abstracts and approximately 4,000 new records each year through regular updates
• abstracts from more than 180 journals and conference proceedings from the conservation field’s essential literature
• abstracts from hundreds of other publications from heritage conservation and allied fields covering literature from antiquity to the present
• abstracts categorized by discipline, technique, and materials
• international coverage: publications from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
• subject-specific bibliographies developed for the Conservation Institute’s work

Contributing to the work of AATA are international networks of Field Editors and Volunteer Abstractors.