Beyond the Gallery Walls: Tools and Methods for Leading End-Users to Collections Information

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Jun/Jul 2004 by Coburn, Erin, Baca, Murtha

For Further Reading

Discussion of metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies and collection-specific thesauri for art and material culture:

Baca, M. (2003). Practical issues in applying metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies to cultural heritage information. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 36(3-4), 47-55.

Baca, M. (In press). Fear of authority? Authority control and thesaurus building for art and material culture information. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 38(3-4).

Resources mentioned in this article:

AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus) www.getty.edu/research/conductingjesearch/vocabularies/aal/

ARTstor www.artstor.org/

Aviso www.aam-us.org/aviso/index.cfm

CCO (Cataloguing Cultural Objects) www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html

CDWA (Categories for the Description of Works of Art) www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/

EAD (Encoded Archival Description) www.loc.gov/ead/

ICONCLASS http://iconclass.nl/index.html

Library of Congress Authorities http://authorities.loc.gov/

MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) www.loc.gov/marc/

MOAC (Museums and the Online Archive of California) www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/

Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (Joan Reitz) www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis

RLG Cultural Materials (Research Libraries Group) http://culturalmaterials.rlg.org/

RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) www.rlg.org/rlin.html

TGM (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials) www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

TGN (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names) www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

ULAN (Union List of Artist Names) www.getty.edu/research/conductingjesearch/vocabularies/ulan/

VRA Core Categories (Visual Resources Association) www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm

WorldCat (OCLC) www.oclc.org/worldcat/default.htm

Erin Coburn, data standards administrator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, can be reached at ecoburn@getty.edu.

Murtha Baca, head, Getty Vocabulary Program and Digital Resource Management, Getty Research Institute, can be reached at mbaca@getty.edu.