[Sigia-l] Taxonomy for Art related products

[Leslie Johnston]

It's a product of the Getty Trust (Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, 
Getty Conservation Institute, etc.), not Getty Images.  The two are not 
related.

The vocabularies are freely available, if you don't mind using the public 
web interface to research the terms for your taxonomy.

If you want a machine copy of the entire taxonomy system, there is a 
charge. I have no idea about cost.  System vendors in the museum and visual 
resources world have licensed the AAT for bundling.  I just checked the 
current conditions on the FAQ 
<http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/faq.html>, 
and it said:

"The data of the vocabularies may be licensed to both commercial and 
non-profit organizations. Data are available in flat files (ASCII or 
USMARC) and in XML. Note that these are data files only - there is no user 
interface."

Leslie

At 03:44 PM 1/28/2004 -0600, Jonathan Broad wrote:
>My understanding is that AAT is not free for commercial use, however.  I 
>happen to work for a competitor of Getty Images, so I imagine I wouldn't 
>receive a discount either.  Anybody have an idea of what it costs to 
>license normally?
>
>Jonathan Broad
>jonathan at relativepath.org
>
>Leslie Johnston wrote:
>
>>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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Leslie Johnston
Director, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
johnston at virginia.edu