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Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
<http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/>
A structured vocabulary that contains terminology and other information
related to art, architecture, and related disciplines. Updated monthly.
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
<http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa>
A metadata schema that describes a set of categories and recommendations
that may be used to design information systems and to catalogue art,
architecture, and related materials, including archaeological and
archival materials.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
<http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn>
A structured vocabulary that contains names and other information
about geographic places; it is focused on, but not limited to, places
important to art, architecture, and related disciplines. Updated
monthly.
Graphic Materials
Betz, Elisabeth W., comp. Graphic Materials: Rules
for Describing
Original Items and Historical
Collections . Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 1982.
A set of rules for the descriptive cataloguing
of prints, photographs, and other graphic materials.
Does not include rules for subject cataloguing
and classification. Compatible with the second
edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2),
which is widely used in libraries for the descriptive
cataloguing of books and other materials.
ICONCLASS
<http://www.iconclass.nl>
Waal, Henri van de. ICONCLASS: An Iconographic
Classification System . 9 vols. in 17.
Completed and edited by L. D. Couprie with R.
H. Fuchs, E. Tholen, G.
Vellekoop,
and others. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1973-83.
Straten, Roelof van. Iconography, Indexing,
ICONCLASS: A Handbook . Leiden: Foleor,
1994.
A classification system for iconographic research
and documentation of images; ICONCLASS offers ready-made
definitions for objects, persons, events, situations,
and abstract ideas that can be represented in the
visual arts. The system is organized in ten broad
divisions within which subjects are ordered hierarchically.
Library of Congress's Name Authorities
Library of Congress. Name Authorities .
Cumulative microform ed. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service.
Library of Congress. Name Authorities .
Database ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
Cataloging Distribution Service.
A controlled vocabulary consisting of records
for names and series established by the Library
of Congress and cooperating libraries under the
National Coordinated Cataloging Operations (NACO)
program. Available as a computer file or in microfiche
through the Library of Congress; also made available
in electronic form by various vendors. When made
available separately, it is sometimes called
Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF);
when made available in conjunction with Library
of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), it is
sometimes called Library of Congress Authority
File (LCAF).
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support
Office. Library of Congress Subject
Headings . Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service.
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support
Office. Subject Cataloging Manual:
Subject Headings . 5th ed. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging
Distribution Service, 1996.
A structured vocabulary designed to represent
the subject and form of the books, serials, and
other materials in the Library of Congress collections,
with the purpose of providing subject access points
to the bibliographic records contained in the Library
of Congress catalogues. More broadly, LCSH is used
as a tool for subject indexing of library catalogues
and other materials (including visual materials).
Available in print (annual) and microfiche (updated
quarterly). Also available on line from various
vendors and bibliographic utilities, and as part
of the Library of Congress CD-ROM product Classification
Plus.
Subject Index for the Visual Arts
Glass, Elizabeth, comp. A Subject Index for the Visual Arts .
London: H. M. Stationery Office,
1969.
A structured vocabulary used for subject access to materials in
the Print Room of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM)
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Thesaurus
for Graphic Materials.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging
Distribution Service, 1995.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject
Terms. <http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1>.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and
Physical Characteristic Terms.
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2>.
A structured vocabulary containing terms that
describe both the subjects and the object/work
types of graphic materials. First issued in print
as two separate works, LC Thesaurus for Graphic
Materials (1987) and Descriptive Terms
for Graphic Materials (1986). The online version
continues to be separated into two parts, one containing
subject terms (TGM I) and one containing object/work
type terms (TGM II).
Thesaurus Iconographique
Garnier, François. Thesaurus iconographique:
Système descriptif des représentations.
Paris: Léopard d'Or, 1984.
A structured vocabulary for the subjects of images.
In French.
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
<http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan>
A structured vocabulary containing names and other
information for artists, architects, and other
creators of art and architecture. Updated monthly.
VRA Core Categories
<http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm>
A metadata schema for describing visual documents
depicting works of art, architecture, and artifacts
or structures from material, popular, and folk
culture. Based on Categories for the Description
of Works of Art .
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