[Sigia-l] Taxonomy for Art related products

[Jonathan Broad]

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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