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New! Cataloguing Cultural Objects:
A Guide to Describing Cultural Works andtheir Images.
The CCO Project team would like your comments on the chapters that are available.
Your feedback is needed to ensure that the CCO guide will be a useful cataloguing tool for the community.
Data Value Standards (Controlled Vocabularies)
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty AAT)
- Controlled vocabularies (ALA)
- British Museum Object Names Thesaurus
- Iconclass
- Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians (IFLA)
- Provenance Index (Getty)
- Library of Congress Catalog (LC)
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty TGN)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I (Library of Congress TGM1)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II (Library of Congress TGM2)
- Union List of Artists Names (Getty ULAN)
- Web Thesaurus Compendium
Data Structures
| Dublin Core: | The Dublin Core has become an important part of the emerging infrastructure of the Internet. Many communities are eager to adopt a common core of semantics for resource description, and the Dublin Core has attracted broad ranging international and interdisciplinary support for this purpose. |
| VRA Core 4.0: | The VRA Core Categories, Version 3.0 consist of a single element set that can be applied as many times as necessary to create records to describe works of visual culture as well as the images that document them. The Data Standards Committee followed the "1:1 principle," developed by the Dublin Core community, i.e., only one object or resource may be described within a single metadata set. How the element sets are linked to form a single record is a local database implementation issue. The order of the categories in the VRA Core 3.0 is arbitrary, and local implementations are encouraged to determine their own field sequence that will appropriately describe their data. |
| NIST: | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Data Content
- AACR2r (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules)
Data Communication
