Info Of Getty Fine Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ® (TGN), the Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), the Cultural Objects Name Authority ® (CONA), as well as the Iconography Authority (IA) are structured resources that tin hand the axe live on used to better access to information for art, architecture, as well as other textile culture. Through rich metadata as well as links, it is hoped that the Getty vocabularies volition furnish a powerful conduit for inquiry as well as regain for digital fine art history as well as related disciplines.

• Cataloging: The Getty vocabularies may live on used every bit information value standards at the shout out for of documentation or cataloging. In this context, they may live on used every bit a controlled vocabulary or potency past times the cataloger or indexer; they furnish preferred names/terms as well as synonyms for people, places, as well as things. They also furnish construction as well as classification schemes that tin hand the axe assistance inwards documentation.
• Retrieval: They may live on used every bit search assistants inwards database retrieval systems as well as to a greater extent than broadly inwards a linked environment. They are noesis bases that include semantic networks that exhibit links as well as paths betwixt concepts; these relationships tin hand the axe brand retrieval to a greater extent than successful.
• Research tools: They may live on utilized every bit inquiry tools, valuable because of the rich information as well as contextual noesis that they contain.


• Linked Open Data (LOD): The Getty vocabularies are constructed to allow their role inwards linked data. Releasing the Getty vocabularies every bit Linked Open Data is business office of the Getty's ongoing essay out to brand our noesis resources freely available to all. The AAT, TGN, as well as ULAN are directly available every bit LOD. They are published nether the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) 1.0.
  
  Making the Getty vocabularies available to the inquiry community every bit LOD is having a really transformative number on the dependent champaign of fine art history inwards general, as well as on Digital Art History inwards particular.

F.A.Q. close the AAT
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Use of the AAT
Copyright © 2017 The J. Paul Getty Trust. All rights reserved. The Getty vocabularies are made available via the Web browsers to back upward express inquiry as well as cataloging efforts. Companies as well as institutions interested inwards more extensive use of AAT, TGN, or ULAN are advised to explore the Linked Open Data releases. APIs are available. Relational tables as well as XML releases are also available, only may live on discontinued inwards the future. All releases are available nether the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) 1.0. Releases of CONA as well as the IA are nether development.