[Sigia-l] Taxonomy for Art related products

[Leslie Johnston]

The Art and Architecture Thesaurus is the principal standard used in 
taxonomic/subject classification in library visual resource collections and 
in museums.  It is also an accepted standard in the digital library 
community for classification of cultural heritage materials in Dublin Core, 
METS, VRA Core, etc.  It is very flexible for pre-and post-coordinated 
use.  Using AAT as the taxonomy would certain make the organization of 
art-related resources more familiar to  a certain set of users.

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

At 05:10 PM 1/26/2004 -0500, Pradyot Rai wrote:
>I am looking for help in finding examples of "taxonomy" for various art
>related products - furnitures, paintings, crafts, etc. I am also trying to
>find if I get something to read on the strategy to classify them in terms
>of meta data.
>
>I remember somebody mentioned it once in this list about similar stuff,
>however, my attempt so far to retrieve anything from the archieve has not
>resulted in anything.
>
>Any pointers, suggestions, examples, opinions will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pradyot Rai
>
>
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Leslie Johnston
Director, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
johnston at virginia.edu