Contributors to the Getty Vocabularies
The Getty Vocabularies grow in large part through continued efforts and contributions from the expert user community. Below is a list of contributors to the Getty Vocabularies, including ongoing current contributors, former contributors, and new and potentially pending contributors. The list is extensible and subject to frequent updates. Organized below alphabetically by Full Name.
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| A | |
| AAT-AD | AAT Advisory Committee (Williamstown, Massachusetts) |
| AS-Academia Sinica | Academia Sinica (Nankang, Taiwan); see also TELDAP |
| AFAWarsaw | Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland (Warsaw, Poland) |
| AAM | Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| AKVA | Aga Khan Visual Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| AKAG | Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York) |
| ARDL | Alexandria Research Digital Library, University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California) |
| AC | Allegheny College (Allegheny, Pennsylvania) |
| AAC | American Art Collaborative (United States) |
| AASLH | American Association for State and Local History (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ADA-Yale | American Decorative Arts, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| AIA | American Institute of Architects (Washington, DC) |
| AMSA | American Society of Appraisers (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ACM | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| Andvari | Andvari Iconographic Thesaurus project (International) |
| AWM | Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| A&AAL-UO | Architecture and Allied Arts Library and Digital Scholarship Center, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| AVRL-UCBerkeley | Architecture Visual Resources Library (University of California, Berkeley) |
| UOM | Architecture/Fine Arts Library, University of Manitoba (Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada) |
| Archives-ND | Archives and Special Collections, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| AAA-Smithsonian | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| ARQUI | ARQUIGRAFIA Project (Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| AALStanford | Art and Architecture Library, Stanford (Stanford, CA) |
| UTA | Art and Art History Department, University of Texas at Austin |
| SmithColl | Art Department Imaging Center, Smith College (Northampton, Massachustts) |
| AIC | Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| AMICO | Art Museum Image Consortium (international) |
| ART500 | art500 (art500.com) |
| ARTstor | ARTstor (New York, New York) |
| Art UK | Art UK (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom) |
| AsiaArt | Asia Art Archive (Sheung Wan, Hong Kong) |
| AuckMu | Auckland Museum (Auckland, New Zealand) |
| ANC | Autry National Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| AVERY | Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Columbia University (New York, New York) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| B | |
| BGC | Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (New York, New York) |
| BASIRA | BASIRA Project: Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art (Consortium, International) |
| BHA | Bibliography of the History of Art / Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| BELSPO | Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Brussels, Belgium) |
| BEINFRAT | Belgian Initiative to Broaden the Network for the French Translation of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Brussels, Belgium) |
| Bib-Uffizi | Biblioteca degli Uffizi (Florence, Italy) |
| Biblio Arc USI | Biblioteca dell'Accademia di architettura Universit$02a della Svizzera Italiana (Mendrisio, Switzerland) |
| KASKA | Bibliotheek Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| BSZ | Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Wuerttemberg (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| BAFM | Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Marburg, Germany) |
| BHSU | Black Hills State University (Spearfish, South Dakota) |
| BPL | Boston Public Library (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| BSR | British School at Rome (Rome, Italy) |
| BMC | Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| BU | Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania) |
| Butler | Butler Gallery (Kilkenny, Ireland) |
| BWR | Built Works Registry (New York, New York) |
| BVRL-UNM | Bunting Visual Resources Library, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| BURLMAG | The Burlington Magazine (London, England) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| C | |
| CCA | Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d'Architecture (Montreal, Canada) |
| CHIN / RCIP | Canadian Heritage Information Network / Reseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada) |
| CRPP | Capitol Restoration and Promotion Program (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| CD | Carlo Dumontet (independent scholar, London) |
| CarnegieArt | Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| CLVR | Carpenter Library and Visual Resources Center, Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| UCSC | Catholic University of Milan/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) |
| CAA-AIIS | Center for Art & Archaeology (CAA) Archives, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) (New Delhi, India) |
| CHS | Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| CSEAS | Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) |
| MAVCOR-Yale | Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| CENTO | Cento Pittori Via Margutta (Rome, Italy) |
| CDBP-SNPC | Centro de Documentación de Bienes Patrimoniales (Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural, Ministerio de las Culturas las Artes y el Patrimonio; Santiago, Chile) |
| CLWC | Chapin Library, Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts) |
| Christchurch AG | Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhet$01u (Christchurch, New Zealand) |
| Christie's | Christie's (International) |
| CIDOC | CIDOC Documentations Standard Working Group; International Council of Museums, International Committee for Documentation (International) |
| CMA | Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| CVAA-BR | Collaborative Vocabulary of Arts and Architecture (Brazil) |
| Colgate | Colgate University, Longyear Museum of Anthropology and Picker Art Gallery (Hamilton, New York) |
| CT-MDA | Collections Trust (Cambridge, England); formerly Museum Documentation Association |
| CAP | College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| COBE | College of Built Environments, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| USF | College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| Cooper Hewitt | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, New York) |
| Cooper | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, New York) |
| CL-Courtauld | Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, Somerset House (London, England) |
| Culturetech | Culturetech, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| CDL | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (International) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| D | |
| DM | Daisy Morant (independent contributor) |
| DAROS | Daros Latinamerica AG (Zurich, Switzerland and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| DAM | Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado) |
| gencat | Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació, Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) |
| DHA-UCBerkeley | Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California) |
| CHILAT | Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) |
| UWO | Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) |
| DIA | Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan) |
| DHI | Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (Rome, Italy) |
| DiFaB | DiFaB Project, Institute of Art History of the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) |
| VADAR | Digital Asset Management, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) |
| DA-UC | Digital Assets, Merced Library, University of California (Merced, California) |
| DCLUMN | Digital Content Library, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| DIVA | DIVA Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| ICH | Documentation Center, Iranian Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (Iran) |
| DUKE | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| DOAKS | Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC) |
| Drexel | Drexel University Libraries (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| E | |
| EEP-Bodleian | Electronic Enlightenment Project - Bodleian Library (Oxford, England) |
| ECUAD | Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, British Columbia) |
| EH | English Heritage (Swindon, England) |
| ETSAM | Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Technical University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain) |
| EFHA | European Fashion Heritage Association (International) |
| Maritime-SMB | European Maritime Museums, Institute for Museum Research Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| F | |
| FHSS | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) |
| FAC-LutherColl | Fine Arts Collection, Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) |
| FNBA | Finnish National Board of Antiquities (Helsinki, Finland) |
| Vai | Flanders Architecture Institute (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| GRI-FloCo | Florentine Codex Initiative, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| Fogg | Fogg Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| FSL | Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC) |
| FDA | Foundation for Documents of Architecture (Washington, DC) |
| Fowler | Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles, California) |
| FRANKG | Franklin Gallery |
| FRICK | Frick Art Reference Library (New York, New York) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| G | |
| Gallery Systems | Gallery Systems (New York, New York) |
| GDG | GDG Exhibits Trust (Washington, DC) |
| Georg-August | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany) |
| Eastman | George Eastman Museum (Rochester, New York) |
| GWU | George Washington University (Washington, DC) |
| GOM | Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, formerly Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center (Sante Fe, New Mexico) |
| GCI | Getty Conservation Institute, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GCT | Getty Conservation Thesaurus (Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California) |
| ITS | Getty Information Technology Services, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| PROV | Getty Provenance Index, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRICP | Getty Research Institute, Conservation and Preservation, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRI-DRM | Getty Research Institute, Digital Resource Management, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRI-FloCo | Getty Research Institute, Florentine Codex Initiative, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRIGCC | Getty Research Institute, General Collections Cataloging, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRI-LALAI | Getty Research Institute, Latin American and Latinx Initiative, Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRL | Getty Research Institute, Research Library catalog records, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRLCD | Getty Research Institute, Research Library Collection Development, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRLPSC | Getty Research Institute, Research Library Photo Study Collection, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRI-Archives | Getty Research Institute, Institutional Archives, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRI-PHAPI | Getty Research Institute, Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California) |
| GRL-TS | Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Technical Services, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| GRISC | Getty Research Institute, Special Collections Cataloging, The Getty Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| SysDev | Getty System Development. Terminology added to facilitate Getty or Getty-related system development or data releases |
| VP | Getty Vocabulary Program. In other resources, may be abbreviated as GVP. |
| VP-adjunct | Getty Vocabulary Program, adjunct editor |
| VP-intern | Getty Vocabulary Program, intern editor |
| Grove Art | Grove Art artists database, Oxford University Press (New York, New York) |
| GTA | gta Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| H | |
| Kreyol Thesaurus | Haitian Kreyol Thesaurus, Haitian Art: A Digital Crossroads (HADC), Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa). |
| HRC | Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas) |
| HUA | Harvard University Archives (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| PIRC | Harvard University Property Information Resource Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| Africamap | Harvard University, Africamap Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| EHC | Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| VRC-IU | Henry R. Hope School of Fine Arts Visual Resources Center, Indiana University ( Bloomington, Indiana) |
| HNE | Historic New England (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| HNOC | Historic New Orleans Collection (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| Tulane | Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| Huntington Archive | Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art (Columbus, Ohio) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| I | |
| IWM | Imperial War Museum (London, England) |
| IND | Independent Scholar |
| ICA | Index of Christian Art / Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| Indiana History | Indiana Historical Society (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| IHS | Indian Health Service (Rockville, Maryland) |
| IDEA | International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (International) |
| IDP | International Dunhuang Project (international) |
| INHA | l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (Paris, France) |
| ILSP-CHCM | Institute for Language and Speech Processing / R.C. Athena / Corgialenios Historical and Cultural Museum (Athens, Greece) |
| PHAROS | International Photo Archives Association (International) |
| Cantor Arts | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (Stanford, California) |
| IMJ | Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Israel, Jerusalem) |
| ICCD | Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (Rome, Italy) |
| IVO | Ivo Collection (former Amsterdam Museum of Bags and Purses) (Netherlands) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| J | |
| JPGM | J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California) |
| JAHL | Jean & Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| JHU | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| JLMM | Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| K | |
| KCAI | Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| KSHS | Kansas Historical Society (Topeka, Kansas) |
| KdG-SLA | Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Sint Lucas Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| KSLIS | Kent State University, School of Library and Information Science (Kent, Ohio) |
| Kerkenes Project | Kerkenes Project (international) |
| Kislak-Penn | Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries (Philadelphia) |
| KHZ | Kunsthaus Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| KMKG-MRAH | Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Brussels, Belgium) |
| KMSKA - Bibliotheek | Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium / Institut royal pour le Patrimoine artistique (Brussels, Belgium) |
| KIK-IRPA | Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen vzw – Bibliotheek (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| L | |
| LML | Lane Medical Library, Stanford University (Stanford, California) |
| LA Cit | Les Arches Citoyennes (Paris, France) |
| LAC | Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) |
| SMITHSB | Library and Archives Systems Support Branch, Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC) |
| LISUL | Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, Illinois) |
| DLI | Library Image Collection (DLI), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) |
| LAC | Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) |
| LC-PPD | Library of Congress, Photographs, Prints, Drawings Division (Washington, DC) |
| Ligatus | Ligatus, University of the Arts, London (London, England) |
| LMU / ZIKG | LMU Munich Institute for Art History and the Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte (ZIKG)( Munich, Germany) |
| LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California) |
| Louvre Abu Dhabi | Louvre Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) |
| Luna | Luna Imaging, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| M | |
| Pequot Museum | Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center (Mashantucket, Connecticut) |
| MNM-TePapa Thesaurus | Matauranga Maori Thesaurus, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand) |
| M Adams | Matthew Adams (independent scholar) |
| MCT | Material Culture Thesaurus (German Documentation Centre for Art History Foto Marburg at the Philipps-University Marburg, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, DE) |
| MAG | Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| Menil | Menil Collection (Houston, Texas) |
| MID | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York) |
| MAM | Middelheimmuseum (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| MAM | Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| MIA | Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| MHS | Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| Morem | Missouri Remembers (Saint Louis and Kansas City, Missouri) |
| Morgan | Morgan Library & Museum (New York, New York) |
| Musee L | Musee universitaire de Louvain, Universite catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) |
| MNBA | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación (Santiago, Chile) |
| MBAQ | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain) |
| MTB | Musee National des Beaux Arts du Quebec (Canada) |
| MuseosA | Museos Abiertos (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| MASP | Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) |
| MEB | Museu Etnològic de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) |
| MNAC | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) |
| MFAH | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| MFA | Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| MNM-TePapa | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand) |
| MoMA | Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York) |
| Tallinn-Photo | Museum of Photography (Tallinn, Estonia) |
| MIC | Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan (Tokyo, Japan) |
| MYSTIC | Mystic Seaport - The Museum of America and the Sea (Mystic, Connecticut) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| N | |
| V&A NAL | National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) |
| BCNF | National Central Library of Florence/Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Florence, Italy) |
| NCAD | National College of Art and Design (Dublin, Ireland) |
| NGA-London | National Galery of Art (London, England) |
| NGA-DC | National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) |
| NGA-DC-Images | National Gallery of Art Library, Image Collections (Washington, DC) |
| NGA-Aus | National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia) |
| VP-NGA-NIMA | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC) |
| NHB | National Heritage Board (Republic of Singapore) |
| NHMS | National Historical Museums of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| NIRP | National Inventory Research Project (University of Glasgow, Scotland) |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| NMAfA | National Museum of African Art Library (Washington, DC) |
| NMAsA-Freer | National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| NMCardiff | National Museum Cardiff / Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd (Cardiff, Wales) |
| V&A NAL | National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) |
| NASJON | National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo, Norway) |
| NMAI | National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| NMAH | National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| NMAsA-Freer | National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| NMAsA-Sackler | National Museum of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| NatMus-Lviv | National Museum in Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine) |
| RMNH | National Museum of Natural History / Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Leiden, the Netherlands) |
| NMNH | National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
| NMS | National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| NMWA | National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC) |
| NPS | National Park Service (Washington, DC) |
| NPG-UK | National Portrait Gallery (London, England) |
| NRICH | National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of Korea (Republic of Korea) |
| NatTrust | National Trust (Swindon, England) |
| NAMA | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| RKD | Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie; The Hague, Netherlands) |
| NYU | New York University (New York, New York) |
| NCS | North Carolina State University Libraries (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| NorUL | Northwestern University Library (Evanston, Illinois) |
| NRW | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste Universität Bonn Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie Abteilung für Altamerikanistik (Bonn, Germany) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| O | |
| Belvedere | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna, Austria) |
| OFDN | O Foundation (International) |
| OSU | Ohio State University, Historic Costume & Textiles Collection (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ORL | Otto G. Richter Library (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| P | |
| PSArchive | Paolo Salvati Archive (Rome, Italy) |
| PA-Portal | Persian Art and Architecture Portal (Iran) |
| PMA | Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| PESP | Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) |
| PUC | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile) |
| PAM | Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon) |
| PHM | Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia) |
| PHS | Presbyterian Historical Society (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| PEMM | Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| PSA | Princeton University School of Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| R | |
| RILM | Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (New York, New York) |
| Regis | Regis University (Denver, Colorado) |
| Rijksmuseum | Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) |
| RKD, AAT-Ned | RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History; The Hague, The Netherlands). Dutch AAT translation by Bureau AAT |
| Ringling | John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida) |
| Rotch-MIT | Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning, MIT (Cambridge, Massachustts) |
| RCU | Royal Commission for Al-Ula (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) |
| RIBA | Royal Institute of British Architects (London, England) |
| RUB | Rubenshuis (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| RCL | Russian Collections, Ltd. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| S | |
| SLAM | Saint Louis Art Museum (St Louis, Missouri) |
| SLPL | Saint Louis Public Library (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| Salt | Salt (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| SDMM | San Diego Museum of Man (San Diego, California) |
| Sapienza | Sapienza Universita di Roma (Rome, Italy) |
| UMD-Arch | School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| USP A+U | School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) |
| UOI | School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| SAIC | School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ANET | Scientific/Academic Library Network Working Group for AAT (Anet) (Headquarters: University Library of Antwerp, Belgium) |
| SFI | Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| SAM | Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Washington) |
| SNG | Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| SAAM | Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); formerly National Museum of American Art |
| NPG | Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) |
| SNITE | Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| SCA | Society for Contemporary Arts (Czech Republic) |
| SAH Archipedia | Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia (Chicago, Illinois) |
| Sonoma | Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, California) |
| SCM | St. Catharines Museum (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) |
| SPB Arts | St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture (St. Petersburg, Russia) |
| IfM-SMB-PK | Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, Germany) |
| Suzzallo-UW | Suzzallo Library, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| RAA | Swedish National Heritage Board / Riksantikvarieämbetet (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| SARI | Swiss Art Research Infrastructure SARI / University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
| SIK-ISEA | Swiss Institute for Art Research (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| SUL | Syracuse University Library (Syracuse, New York) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| T | |
| TELDAP | Taiwan E-Learning & Digital Archives Program, Academia Sinica (Nankang, Taiwan); see also AS |
| TAM | Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| TRP | Tesauro Regional Patrimonial, Centro de Documentacion de Bienes Patrimoniales (Santiago, Chile) |
| TCATP | Traditional Chinese Architecture Translation Project |
| TOBUNKEN | Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Japan) |
| TRICOL | Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| U | |
| UCR/CMP | UCR/California Museum of Photography (Riverside, California) |
| USHMM | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC) |
| UNAM | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico) |
| IUAV | Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice (Venice, Italy) |
| UALCAM | University of Alberta, Cameron Library (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) |
| UA Library | University of Antwerp. Libraries & Archives (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| CanterburyNZ | University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) |
| VRC-Chicago | University of Chicago, Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History (Illinois) |
| UNMA | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| UMMA | University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| USP | University of Sao Paulo. School of Communications and Arts and School of Architecture and Urbanism (Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| USD | University Libraries, University of South Dakota (Vermillion, South Dakota) |
| USW-UK | University of South Wales (Pontypridd, Wales) |
| USW-UK | University of South Wales (Pontypridd, Wales) |
| UOT | University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) |
| UOU | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey (Washington, DC); data from open source |
| NARA | U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, DC) |
| UTK | University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Tennessee) |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
| V | |
| V&A Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum, Collections information (London, England) |
| VUW | Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand) |
| I Tatti | Villa I Tatti - Biblioteca Berenson (Florence, Italy) |
| VCU | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| VRA Standards | Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee |
| VRC-UTA | Visual Resources Collection of the Art and Art History Department, University of Texas at Austin |
| UDelaware | Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History, University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| VTMK | Visuele Thesaurus voor Mode & Kostuums (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| VP-emeritus | Vocabulary Program-emeritus |
| Brief Name | Full Name |
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| Du Bois | W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| WRAP | Web Resources for Art in Public |
| Winterthur | Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Winterthur, Delaware) |
| WHS | Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| WPR | Wisconsin Public Radio (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| WL-Courtauld | Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art (London, England) |
| WordImage-V&A | Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) |
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