8/18/2020 Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® Introduction and Overview Patricia Harpring Managing Editor, Getty Vocabulary Program revisedAugust 2020 1 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 3 ...Hierarchies 91 Contributions to AAT 173 AAT in Context 5 ......Facets of the AAT 93 ...Preferred term for contributor 175 ...Contributors 12 ......Sub-Facets 98 ...Merging records 176 ...Users of Vocabs 13 ......Genus/species 100 ...Translating the AAT 187 What is the AAT 16 ......Guide terms 105 ......How to translate the AAT 189 ...Scope of AAT 23 ......Choosing the parent 110 ......Types of possible equivalences 191 Data Elements in AAT 25 ......Polyhierarchy113 ......Preferred term in target language 191 ...Record Type 30 ......Facet code 115 ......New candidate terms 195 ...Unique IDs 31 ......Parent ID 116 ......Non-Roman alphabets 196 ...Terms 34 ......Displaying the relationships 117 ......Translating scope notes 198 ......Preferred terms 43 ......Sort order of hierarchy 117 Recent editorial issues 198 ......Alternate Descriptors 52 ......Dates of hierarchical rel. 121 Utilizing AAT 229 ......Used For terms 53 ...Associative relationships 122 ...Specificity and exhaustivity231 ......Exact equivalents 56 ......Relationship types 130 ...Homographs for end users 236 ......More about terms 60 ......Dates for associative rel. 134 ...How are Vocabularies used? 238 ......Compound terms 67 ...Scope note 134 ...What is LOD? 240 ......Pre-and Postcoordination72 ...Sources 143 ......Qualifiers 77 ......Finding terms in sources 147 ......Display order of terms 84 ...Images 158 ......Dates for terms 86 ...Languages 160 ......Display vs indexing 87 ......Coined terms and loan words 169 ......Displaying AAT data 89 ......Diacritics and Unicode 172 Introduction to AAT 2 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 PREFACE • This presentation is an overview of AAT • AAT is available in an online search interface, available as XML, relational tables, APIs, and as Linked Open Data (LOD) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/Vocabularies/aat/index.html • For a full discussion of fields and editorial rules, see the AAT Editorial Guidelines http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/Vocabularies/guidelines/index.ht ml#aat • For the history of AAT, see About AAT http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/Vocabularies/aat/about.html • Questions? Contributions? Send an email to us at [email protected] Introduction to AAT 3 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 See Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies and Editorial Guidelines for full discussion Getty Vocabularies © 2014 J. Paul Getty Trust, author: Patricia Harpring .For educational purposes only. Do not distribute. 4 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 Enabling research and AAT in Context discovery for digital art history Introduction to AAT 5 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 What are the Getty Vocabularies?  The Getty Vocabularies contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, conservation, and bibliographic materials.  Compliant with international standards, they provide authoritative information for catalogers, researchers, and data providers.  The Getty Vocabularies strive to be ever more multilingual, multi-cultural, and inclusive. The vocabularies grow through contributions from institutions and projects comprising the expert user community.  In the new linked, open environments, the Getty Vocabularies may provide a powerful conduit for research and discovery for digital art history. Introduction to AAT 6 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 What are the Getty Vocabularies?  The Getty Vocabularies represent over 35 years of continuing international collaborative scholarship.  From their inception, the Getty Vocabularies were designed to be linkable to each other and to the broader realm of cultural heritage information. For example, in the AAT, concepts are linked to each other through hierarchical and associative relationships.  With the release of the Getty Vocabularies as Linked Open Data (LOD) a few years ago, the Getty became a leader in advancing the possibilities of technology to enable research and discovery of information about art, architecture, conservation, and other cultural heritage.  The Getty Vocabularies are entering a new world of seemingly limitless possibilities in digital scholarship. Introduction to AAT 7 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 What are the Getty Vocabularies?  Target audience: The primary user communities and target audience of the Getty Vocabularies include researchers in art and architecture, art libraries, archives, visual resource collection catalogers, museums, special collections, other repositories of cultural heritage information, conservation specialists, archaeological projects, bibliographic indexing projects, and the information specialists who attend to the needs of these users. In addition, a significant number of users of the Getty Vocabularies are students or members of the general public.  How the vocabularies are constructed: The AAT, ULAN, TGN, IA, and CONA are compiled resources that grow primarily through contributions from the expert user community, including large-scale international translation projects. Introduction to AAT 8 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html Getty Vocabularies Enabling digital art history • AAT, the Art & Architecture Thesaurus® includes generic terms, relationships, sources, and notes for work types, roles, materials, styles, cultures, and techniques (e.g., amphora, oil paint, olieverf, peintures à l'huile, acetolysis, 玉器, Jadekünste, sintering, orthographic drawings, Olmeca, Rinascimento, Buddhism, watercolors, asa-no-ha-toji) • TGN, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® includes names, relationships, and coordinates for current and historical cities, nations, empires, archaeological sites, lost settlements, and physical features; through LOD, TGN may be linked to GIS and maps (e.g., Diospolis, Acalán, Ottoman Empire, Mogao, Ch'ien-fu-tung, Ganges River, गंगानदी) • ULAN, the Union List of Artist Names® includes names, relationships, notes, sources, and biographical information for artists, architects, firms, studios, repositories, patrons, sitters, and other individuals and corporate bodies, both named and anonymous (e.g., Mark Rothko, Cai Xiang, 葵襄, Crevole Master, RizaAbbasi, Altobelli & Molins, Rajaraja Museum) • IA, the Getty Iconography Authority™ includes proper names, relationships, and dates for iconographical narratives, religious or fictional characters, historical events, names of literary works and performing art(e.g., Adoration of the Magi, ViaggiodeiRe Magi, Flood of Deucalion, French Revolution, Olouaipipilele, Xibalba, Niflheim,ि◌शव, Shiva, Bouddhacouché) • CONA, the Cultural Objects Name Authority® includes titles, artist attribution, creation dates, relationships, and location for works of art, architecture, and other cultural works, whether extant or destroyed (e.g., The Lacemaker, La Dentellière, Merlettaia, Lion Throne Room,神奈川沖浪, Great Wave, Die großeWelle, ChayasomesvaraTemple, HagiaSofia, Αγία Σοφία) Introduction to AAT 9 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020 8/18/2020 AAT in Context Enabling digital art history • All Getty Vocabularies have the same Core Structure • All have the same core editorial rules, content is linked • Getty Vocabularies are linked to each other 10 Patricia Harpring Introduction to AAT revised August 2020