Controlled Authorities/Vocabularies

Authorities Referenced

• Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/) – Uses flattened LCSH and LCNAF data.

• Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus

• Library of Congress Authorities

Creator

Language

Genre

Format

• Selected terms from DCMI Type Vocabulary (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/)

  • Image - http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image

  • Moving Image - http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/MovingImage

  • Physical Object - http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/PhysicalObject

  • Sound - http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound

  • Text - http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text

Subject

• Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/) – Uses flattened LCSH and contains LCNAF data.

• Virtual International Authority File (http://viaf.org/) – Includes LC, Getty, and international library authorities.

• LC Subject Headings (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html)

• Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html) – Not sure if that link is the correct URI. Here is the semantic link to AAT: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300311452.

Medium

• Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html) – Not sure if that link is the correct URI. Here is the semantic link to AAT: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300311452.

Notes on Available Controlled Authorities/Vocabularies

• LC Linked Data Service (http://id.loc.gov/) - Includes one-stop lookup access to:

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) - Used for subjects/topics/geographic subdivisions.

  • Library of Congress Name Authority Files (LCNAF) - Used for persons, organizations, events, places, and titles.

    • CHF is part of the Name Authority Cooperative (NACO), so can directly contribute to authorized name records.

  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) - Used to describe what a work is (as opposed to LCSH) and its format.

    • For example, "Horror films" could be an LCSH subject for a book on about horror films, but can also be a LCGFT term for movies where "horror" is the genre and "film" is the form.

  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) - Used for visual materials. Includes specialized subject and genre/format terms for photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and etc.

• **LC Linked Data Service also contains many other vocabularies, but the above would be the most initially relevant for CHF.

• Getty Vocabularies (http://vocab.getty.edu/)

  • Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) - Used for concepts relating to art and architecture, such as medium materials and etc.

  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) - Used for places relating to art and architecture. Includes geographic locations as well as place types such as "observatory" or "oil field."

• **Less CHF-relevant but still useful Getty Vocabularies:

  • Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/cona/index.html) - Fairly new vocabulary (introduced 2011) containing title, location, and other descriptive information for cultural works. "In general, CONA does not include records for objects in natural history or scientific collections, although there are exceptions for works of particularly fine craftsmanship that are of the type collected by art museums."

  • Union List of Artist Names (ULAN - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html) - Used for artist and architect names, roles, and nationalities.

• Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging (Revised and expanded version of Robert Chenhall's system for classifying man-made objects. Built into PastPerfect lexicon.) Nomenclature 4.0 will be published in July 2015.

• **Catalogers often use both AAT and Nomenclature. For CHF, Nomenclature's scope will be more generally relevant as it includes medical and scientific equipment, whereas AAT focuses on art and cultural heritage. AAT offers qualifiers and more in-depth coverage, however, and also follows lowercase and natural order format for terms. For use with Hydra, AAT will be better as a primary resource because of its availability as linked data.

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• When CHF Museum staff decide on a CMS, we can explore the option of integrating both vocabularies into a more limited and appropriate selection list.

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• ACM Computing Classification System