[Sigia-l] Taxonomy for Art related products

[alfred at thunderstick.com]

MARC standards? http://www.loc.gov/marc

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Leslie Johnston wrote:

> 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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