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Categories for the Description of Works of Art




Selected Bibliography


 

AACR

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed., 2002 revision. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002. Note: The AACR is being rewritten under the working title RDA: Resource Description and Access. For the status of the new publication, see Current Activities: Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.



AAT

Getty Vocabulary Program. Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 1988-. Available online, incorporated in cataloging systems, and by licensing data files.



AAT: Editorial Rules


Getty Vocabulary Program. Art & Architecture Thesaurus Editorial Guidelines. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2000-.



ACRL/RBMS Genre Terms

Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging. 2nd. ed. Prepared by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, ACRL/ALA. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1991.



AKL

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Günter Meissner, ed. Munich: Saur, 1992- (series is partially finished).



Base Mérimée: Lexique

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France, Paris. Base Mérimée: lexique d'interrogation pour les champs: Dénomination, Parties constituantes, Ouvrages remarquables. Edited by Catherine Chaplain et al. Paris: Ministère de la Culture, 1995.



Bénézit

Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Edited by Emmanuel Bénézit. Originally published 1911-1923. Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1976.

Bénézit Dictionary of Artists. Revised and First English Edition. Paris: Editions Gründ, 2006.



BHA

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art. Los Angeles, California: J. Paul Getty Trust; Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut de l'information scientifique et technique; 1991-. Also available online by subscription



British Archaeological Thesaurus

Lavell, Cherry. British Archaeological Thesaurus: For Use with British Archaeological Abstracts, and Other Publications in British Archaeology. (Practical handbooks in archaeology; no. 4.) London: Council for British Archaeology, 1989.



Canadiana Authorities

National Library of Canada. Canadiana Authorities / Canadiana, vedettes d'authorité. Ottawa: National Library of Canada Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1979- .



Chenhall's Revised Nomenclature


Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects. Edited by James R. Blackaby, Patricia Greeno, and the Nomenclature committee. Reprint edition. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1995.



CCO

Cataloging Cultural Objects: Guide to Describing Cultural Works And Their Images. Edited by Murtha Baca, Patricia Harpring, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, Ann Baird Whiteside. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006. Additional material available online.



Dictionarium Museologicum

Dictionarium Museologicum. Compiled by the Working Group on Terminology of ICOM's International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC). Budapest: International Council of Museums, 1986.



FDA Guide

Porter, Vicki and Robin Thornes. Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings. New York: G. K. Hall & Company, 1994. Updated version available online.



Garnier's Thesaurus iconographique

Garnier, François. Thesaurus iconographique: système descriptif des représentations. Paris : Le Leopard d'or, 1984.



Grove Dictionary of Art

Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. Jane Turner, ed. New York: Grove, 1996. Also available in Grove Art Online by subscription.



ICONCLASS

ICONCLASS: An Iconographical Classification System. Edited by H. van deWaal, D.Couprie, E. Tholen, G. Vellekoop. Amsterdam and New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1973-1985. Also available online.



Index of Jewish Art


Narkiss, Bezalel. Index of Jewish Art: An Iconographical Index of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Jerusalem and Paris: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, 1976-1988.



Intro to Art Image Access

Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies. Edited by Murtha Baca. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2002. Also available online.



Intro to Imaging

Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies. Edited by Howard Besser, Sally Hubbard, and Deborah Lenert. Revised edition. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2003. Also available online.



Intro to Metadata

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Edited by Murtha Baca. Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, 1998. Newer version 2.0 is available online.



Intro to Vocabularies

Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information. Edited by Elisa Lanzi and Patricia Harpring. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1998. Updated version available online.



ISO 8601: Dates and Times

ISO 8601:2004 Representation of Dates and Times. International Organization for Standardization. Data Elements and Interchange Formats. Information Interchange. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization, 2004.



LC Descriptive Terms for Graphic Materials

Descriptive Terms for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristic Headings. Compiled by Helena Zinkham and Elisabeth Betz Parker (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress). Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, 1986.



LC Name Authority and Subject Headings


Library of Congress Authorities online. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2002-.



LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Topical Terms for Subject Access. Compiled by Elisabeth Betz Parker (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress); introduction by Jackie M. Dooley. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, 1987. Also available online.



Moving Image Materials

Library of Congress AMIM Revision Committee. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual. Edited by Wendy White-Hensen. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2000.



NGA / NIMA (US BGN)

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA); formerly United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). (Advised by the US Board on Geographic Names USBGN). GEOnet Names Server (GNS). Washington, DC: NGA, 1997-.



TGN

Getty Vocabulary Program. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 1988-. Available online, incorporated in cataloging systems, and by licensing data files.



TGN: Editorial Rules


Getty Vocabulary Program. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Editorial Guidelines. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2000-.



Thieme-Becker

Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Reprint of 1907 ed. 37 vols. Leipzig: Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980-1986.



Tozzer Library Headings

Tozzer Library. Tozzer Index to Anthropological Subject Headings, Harvard University. 2nd revised edition. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981.



ULAN

Getty Vocabulary Program. Union List of Artist Names (ULAN). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 1988-. Available online, incorporated in cataloging systems, and by licensing data files.



ULAN: Editorial Rules


Getty Vocabulary Program. Union List of Artist Names Editorial Guidelines. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, Vocabulary Program, 2000-.



USGS

United States Geological Survey (USGS). Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Washington, DC: US Geological Survey, 1998-.



V&A Subject Index for the Visual Arts


Subject Index for the Visual Arts. Edited by Elizabeth Glass.Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969.



W3 Dates Schema

XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. W3, 2001.

 


 

Revised 28 August 2006