[Sigia-l] Taxonomy for Art related products

[Leslie Johnston]

The AAT is an approved classification taxonomy under the AACR guidelines 
for creating MARC records, or MARC21  or MODS XML documents.

At 10:58 AM 1/27/2004 -0500, alfred at thunderstick.com wrote:

>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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