The Getty Vocabularies grow in large part through continued efforts and contributions from the expert user community. Below is a list of contributors to the Getty Vocabularies, including ongoing current contributors, former contributors, and new and potentially pending contributors. The list is extensible and subject to frequent updates. Organized below alphabetically by Full Name.

Brief Name Full Name
A
AAT-AD AAT Advisory Committee (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
AS-Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (Nankang, Taiwan); see also TELDAP
AAM Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
AKVA Aga Khan Visual Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
AKAG Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York)
ARDL Alexandria Research Digital Library, University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California)
AC Allegheny College (Allegheny, Pennsylvania)
AAC American Art Collaborative (United States)
AASLH American Association for State and Local History (Nashville, Tennessee)
ADA-Yale American Decorative Arts, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
AIA American Institute of Architects (Washington, DC)
AMSA American Society of Appraisers (Herndon, Virginia)
ACM Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, Texas)
AWM Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
A&AAL-UO Architecture and Allied Arts Library and Digital Scholarship Center, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
AVRL-UCBerkeley Architecture Visual Resources Library (University of California, Berkeley)
UOM Architecture/Fine Arts Library, University of Manitoba (Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Archives-ND Archives and Special Collections, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)
AAA-Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
ARQUI ARQUIGRAFIA Project (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
AALStanford Art and Architecture Library, Stanford (Stanford, CA)
UTA Art and Art History Department, University of Texas at Austin
SmithColl Art Department Imaging Center, Smith College (Northampton, Massachustts)
AIC Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
AMICO Art Museum Image Consortium (international)
ART500 art500 (art500.com)
ARTstor ARTstor (New York, New York)
AsiaArt Asia Art Archive (Sheung Wan, Hong Kong)
AuckMu Auckland Museum (Auckland, New Zealand)
ANC Autry National Center (Los Angeles, California)
AVERY Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Columbia University (New York, New York)

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Brief Name Full Name
B
BGC Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (New York, New York)
BASIRA BASIRA Project: Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art (Consortium, International)
BHA Bibliography of the History of Art / Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
BELSPO Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Brussels, Belgium)
BEINFRAT Belgian Initiative to Broaden the Network for the French Translation of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Brussels, Belgium)
Bib-Uffizi Biblioteca degli Uffizi (Florence, Italy)
Biblio Arc USI Biblioteca dell'Accademia di architettura Universit$02a della Svizzera Italiana (Mendrisio, Switzerland)
BSZ Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Wuerttemberg (Stuttgart, Germany)
BAFM Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Marburg, Germany)
BHSU Black Hills State University (Spearfish, South Dakota)
BPL Boston Public Library (Boston, Massachusetts)
BSR British School at Rome (Rome, Italy)
BMC Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania)
BU Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania)
BWR Built Works Registry (New York, New York)
BVRL-UNM Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
BURLMAG The Burlington Magazine (London, England)

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Brief Name Full Name
C
CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d'Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
CHIN / RCIP Canadian Heritage Information Network / Reseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada)
CRPP Capitol Restoration and Promotion Program (Lincoln, Nebraska)
CD Carlo Dumontet (independent scholar, London)
CarnegieArt Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
CLVR Carpenter Library and Visual Resources Center, Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania)
UCSC Catholic University of Milan/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy)
CAA-AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology (CAA) Archives, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) (New Delhi, India)
CHS Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
CSEAS Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan)
MAVCOR-Yale Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
CENTO Cento Pittori Via Margutta (Rome, Italy)
CDBP-SNPC Centro de Documentación de Bienes Patrimoniales (Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural, Ministerio de las Culturas las Artes y el Patrimonio; Santiago, Chile)
CLWC Chapin Library, Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
Christie's Christie's (International)
CIDOC CIDOC Documentations Standard Working Group; International Council of Museums, International Committee for Documentation (International)
CMA Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio)
CVAA-BR Collaborative Vocabulary of Arts and Architecture (Brazil)
CT-MDA Collections Trust (Cambridge, England); formerly Museum Documentation Association
CAP College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado)
COBE College of Built Environments, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
USF College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
Cooper Hewitt Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, New York)
Cooper Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, New York)
CL-Courtauld Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, Somerset House (London, England)
Culturetech Culturetech, Inc. (New York, New York)
CDL Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (International)

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D
DM Daisy Morant (independent contributor)
DAROS Daros Latinamerica AG (Zurich, Switzerland and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
DAM Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado)
gencat Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació, Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
DHA-UCBerkeley Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
CHILAT Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
UWO Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada)
DIA Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
DHI Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (Rome, Italy)
DiFaB DiFaB Project, Institute of Art History of the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
VADAR Digital Asset Management, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England)
DA-UC Digital Assets, Merced Library, University of California (Merced, California)
DCLUMN Digital Content Library, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
DIVA DIVA Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver (Antwerp, Belgium)
ICH Documentation Center, Iranian Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (Iran)
DUKE Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
DOAKS Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)
Drexel Drexel University Libraries (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Brief Name Full Name
E
EEP-Bodleian Electronic Enlightenment Project - Bodleian Library (Oxford, England)
ECUAD Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, British Columbia)
EH English Heritage (Swindon, England)
ETSAM Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Technical University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
EFHA European Fashion Heritage Association (International)
Maritime-SMB European Maritime Museums, Institute for Museum Research Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

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Brief Name Full Name
F
FHSS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)
UOU Fine Arts & Architecture Library, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah)
FAC-LutherColl Fine Arts Collection, Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)
FNBA Finnish National Board of Antiquities (Helsinki, Finland)
GRI-FloCo Florentine Codex Initiative, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, California)
Fogg Fogg Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
FSL Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC)
FDA Foundation for Documents of Architecture (Washington, DC)
Fowler Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles, California)
FRANKG Franklin Gallery
FRICK Frick Art Reference Library (New York, New York)

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Brief Name Full Name
G
Gallery Systems Gallery Systems (New York, New York)
GDG GDG Exhibits Trust (Washington, DC)
Georg-August Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)
Eastman George Eastman Museum (Rochester, New York)
GWU George Washington University (Washington, DC)
GOM Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, formerly Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center (Sante Fe, New Mexico)
GCI Getty Conservation Institute, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GCT Getty Conservation Thesaurus (Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California)
ITS Getty Information Technology Services, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
PROV Getty Provenance Index, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRICP Getty Research Institute, Conservation and Preservation, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRI-DRM Getty Research Institute, Digital Resource Management, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRI-FloCo Getty Research Institute, Florentine Codex Initiative, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRIGCC Getty Research Institute, General Collections Cataloging, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRL Getty Research Institute, Research Library catalog records, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRLCD Getty Research Institute, Research Library Collection Development, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRLPSC Getty Research Institute, Research Library Photo Study Collection, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRI-Archives Getty Research Institute, Institutional Archives, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRL-TS Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Technical Services, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
GRISC Getty Research Institute, Special Collections Cataloging, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
VP Getty Vocabulary Program
VP-adjunct Getty Vocabulary Program, adjunct editor
VP-intern Getty Vocabulary Program, intern editor
Grove Art Grove Art artists database, Oxford University Press (New York, New York)
GTA gta Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (Zurich, Switzerland)

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Brief Name Full Name
H
HRC Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas)
HUA Harvard University Archives (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
PIRC Harvard University Property Information Resource Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Africamap Harvard University, Africamap Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
VRC-IU Henry R. Hope School of Fine Arts Visual Resources Center, Indiana University ( Bloomington, Indiana)
HNE Historic New England (Boston, Massachusetts)
HNOC Historic New Orleans Collection (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Tulane Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Huntington Archive Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art (Columbus, Ohio)

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Brief Name Full Name
I
IWM Imperial War Museum (London, England)
IND Independent Scholar
ICA Index of Christian Art / Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
Indiana History Indiana Historical Society (Indianapolis, Indiana)
IHS Indian Health Service (Rockville, Maryland)
IDEA International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (International)
IDP International Dunhuang Project (international)
INHA l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (Paris, France)
ILSP-CHCM Institute for Language and Speech Processing / R.C. Athena / Corgialenios Historical and Cultural Museum (Athens, Greece)
PHAROS International Photo Archives Association (International)
Cantor Arts Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (Stanford, California)
IMJ Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Israel, Jerusalem)
ICCD Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (Rome, Italy)
IVO Ivo Collection (former Amsterdam Museum of Bags and Purses) (Netherlands)

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Brief Name Full Name
J
JPGM J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California)
JAHL Jean & Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
JHU Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
JLMM Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California)

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Brief Name Full Name
K
KCAI Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, Missouri)
KSHS Kansas Historical Society (Topeka, Kansas)
KSLIS Kent State University, School of Library and Information Science (Kent, Ohio)
Kerkenes Project Kerkenes Project (international)
Kislak-Penn Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Philadelphia)
KHZ Kunsthaus Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
KMKG-MRAH Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Brussels, Belgium)
KIK-IRPA Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium / Institut royal pour le Patrimoine artistique (Brussels, Belgium)

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Brief Name Full Name
L
LML Lane Medical Library, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
LAC Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
SMITHSB Library and Archives Systems Support Branch, Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC)
LISUL Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, Illinois)
DLI Library Image Collection (DLI), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
LAC Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
LC-PPD Library of Congress, Photographs, Prints, Drawings Division (Washington, DC)
Ligatus Ligatus, University of the Arts, London (London, England)
LMU / ZIKG LMU Munich Institute for Art History and the Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte (ZIKG)( Munich, Germany)
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California)
Louvre Abu Dhabi Louvre Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Luna Luna Imaging, Inc. (Los Angeles, California)

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Brief Name Full Name
M
Pequot Museum Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center (Mashantucket, Connecticut)
MNM-TePapa Thesaurus Matauranga Maori Thesaurus, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand)
M Adams Matthew Adams (independent scholar)
MAG Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Rochester, New York)
Menil Menil Collection (Houston, Texas)
MET Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York)
MAM Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
MIA Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
MHS Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Morem Missouri Remembers (Saint Louis and Kansas City, Missouri)
Morgan Morgan Library & Museum (New York, New York)
Musee L Musee universitaire de Louvain, Universite catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
MNBA Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación (Santiago, Chile)
MBAQ Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
MTB Musee National des Beaux Arts du Quebec (Canada)
MuseosA Museos Abiertos (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
MEB Museu Etnològic de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
MNAC Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
MFAH Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas)
MFA Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
MNM-TePapa Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand)
MoMA Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York)
Tallinn-Photo Museum of Photography (Tallinn, Estonia)
MIC Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan (Tokyo, Japan)
MYSTIC Mystic Seaport - The Museum of America and the Sea (Mystic, Connecticut)

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Brief Name Full Name
N
V&A NAL National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England)
NCAD National College of Art and Design (Dublin, Ireland)
NGA-DC National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
NGA-DC-Images National Gallery of Art Library, Image Collections (Washington, DC)
NGA-Aus National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
VP-NGA-NIMA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC)
NHB National Heritage Board (Republic of Singapore)
NHMS National Historical Museums of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
NIRP National Inventory Research Project (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
NLS National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
NMAfA National Museum of African Art Library (Washington, DC)
NMAsA-Freer National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
NMCardiff National Museum Cardiff / Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd (Cardiff, Wales)
V&A NAL National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England)
NASJON National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo, Norway)
NMAI National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
NMAH National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
NMAsA-Freer National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
NMAsA-Sackler National Museum of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
NatMus-Lviv National Museum in Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine)
RMNH National Museum of Natural History / Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Leiden, the Netherlands)
NMNH National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
NMS National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
NMWA National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC)
NPS National Park Service (Washington, DC)
NPG-UK National Portrait Gallery (London, England)
NRICH National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of Korea (Republic of Korea)
NatTrust National Trust (Swindon, England)
NAMA Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri)
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie; The Hague, Netherlands)
NYU New York University (New York, New York)
NCS North Carolina State University Libraries (Raleigh, North Carolina)
NorUL Northwestern University Library (Evanston, Illinois)
NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste Universität Bonn Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie Abteilung für Altamerikanistik (Bonn, Germany)

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O
Belvedere Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna, Austria)
OFDN O Foundation (International)
OSU Ohio State University, Historic Costume & Textiles Collection (Columbus, Ohio)
ORL Otto G. Richter Library (Coral Gables, Florida)

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Brief Name Full Name
P
PA-Portal Persian Art and Architecture Portal (Iran)
PMA Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
PESP Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
PUC Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile)
PAM Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon)
PHM Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia)
PHS Presbyterian Historical Society (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
PEMM Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) (Princeton, New Jersey)
PSA Princeton University School of Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey)

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Brief Name Full Name
Q
Queens Queens Borough Public Library (Jamaica, New York)

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Brief Name Full Name
R
RILM Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (New York, New York)
Regis Regis University (Denver, Colorado)
Rijksmuseum Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
RKD, AAT-Ned RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History; The Hague, The Netherlands). Dutch AAT translation by Bureau AAT
Ringling John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida)
Rotch-MIT Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning, MIT (Cambridge, Massachustts)
RCU Royal Commission for Al-Ula (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects (London, England)
RCL Russian Collections, Ltd. (Columbus, Ohio)

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Brief Name Full Name
S
SLAM Saint Louis Art Museum (St Louis, Missouri)
SLPL Saint Louis Public Library (Saint Louis, Missouri)
Salt Salt (Istanbul, Turkey)
SDMM San Diego Museum of Man (San Diego, California)
Sapienza Sapienza Universita di Roma (Rome, Italy)
UMD-Arch School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
USP A+U School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
UOI School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa)
SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
ANET Scientific/Academic Library Network Working Group for AAT (Anet) (Headquarters: University Library of Antwerp, Belgium)
SFI Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
SAM Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Washington)
SNG Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia)
SAAM Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); formerly National Museum of American Art
NPG Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)
SNITE Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)
SCA Society for Contemporary Arts (Czech Republic)
SAH Archipedia Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia (Chicago, Illinois)
Sonoma Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, California)
SCM St. Catharines Museum (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)
SPB Arts St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture (St. Petersburg, Russia)
IfM-SMB-PK Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, Germany)
Suzzallo-UW Suzzallo Library, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
SARI Swiss Art Research Infrastructure SARI / University of Zurich (Switzerland)
SIK-ISEA Swiss Institute for Art Research (Zurich, Switzerland)
SUL Syracuse University Library (Syracuse, New York)

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Brief Name Full Name
T
TELDAP Taiwan E-Learning & Digital Archives Program, Academia Sinica (Nankang, Taiwan); see also AS
TAM Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv, Israel)
TRP Tesauro Regional Patrimonial, Centro de Documentacion de Bienes Patrimoniales (Santiago, Chile)
TCATP Traditional Chinese Architecture Translation Project
TOBUNKEN Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Japan)
TRICOL Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)

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Brief Name Full Name
U
UCR/CMP UCR/California Museum of Photography (Riverside, California)
USHMM United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC)
UNAM Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
IUAV Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice (Venice, Italy)
UALCAM University of Alberta, Cameron Library (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
CanterburyNZ University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
VRC-Chicago University of Chicago, Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History (Illinois)
UNMA University of Massachusetts, Amherst
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
USP University of Sao Paulo. School of Communications and Arts and School of Architecture and Urbanism (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
UST Beijing University of Science and Technology, Research Project (Beijing, China)
USW-UK University of South Wales (Pontypridd, Wales)
UOT University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
USGS U.S. Geological Survey (Washington, DC); data from open source
NARA U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, DC)
UTK University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Tennessee)

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V
V&A Collections Victoria and Albert Museum, Collections information (London, England)
VUW Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand)
I Tatti Villa I Tatti - Biblioteca Berenson (Florence, Italy)
VCU Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia)
VRA Standards Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee
VRC-UTA Visual Resources Collection of the Art and Art History Department, University of Texas at Austin
UDelaware Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History, University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware)
VTMK Visuele Thesaurus voor Mode & Kostuums (Antwerp, Belgium)
VP-emeritus Vocabulary Program-emeritus

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Brief Name Full Name
W
Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts)
WRAP Web Resources for Art in Public
Winterthur Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Winterthur, Delaware)
WHS Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin)
WPR Wisconsin Public Radio (Madison, Wisconsin)
WL-Courtauld Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art (London, England)
WordImage-V&A Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England)

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Y
YCBA Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, Connecticut)

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updated 20 October 2023