Contributors to the Getty Vocabularies
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 a small number of new and pending contributors. The list is extensible and subject to frequent updates.
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) |

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) |

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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |

Brief Name | Full Name |
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) |
DIA | Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan) |
UWO | Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) |
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) |

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) |
EFHA | European Fashion Heritage Association (International) |
Maritime-SMB | European Maritime Museums, Institute for Museum Research Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) |

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) |

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) |

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) |

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) |
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) |

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) |

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) |

Brief Name | Full Name |
L | |
LML | Lane Medical Library, Stanford University (Stanford, California) |
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) |

Brief Name | Full Name |
M | |
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) |

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 | National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) |
NGA-Aus | National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia) |
VP-NGA-NIMA | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC) |
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) |
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) |

Brief Name | Full Name |
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) |

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) |

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) |

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) |
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) |

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) |

Brief Name | Full Name |
U | |
UCR/CMP | UCR/California Museum of Photography (Riverside, California) |
USHMM | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC) |
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) |
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) |

Brief Name | Full Name |
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 |

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) |

updated 21 November 2022