Jason Ryan Josvai queried: "Getty Art and Architecture ... was
wondering if it would pertain to her collections?"

Now that our "Royal We" collections are Internet linked and part of
the collective global cultural resources museum, we all need to use
standardized thesauri to all be speaking the same inquiry lanquage.
Getty's Art and Architecture Thesaurus, as well as the equally
accomplished new version of the Library of Congress Thesaurus for
Graphic Materials, both are outstanding resources for identifying
terminology to describe "things" in pictoral collections.


I would venture to speculate that alien beings, needing some way to
classify subjects in pictoral materials, would also find the AAT and
LCTGM very helpful. Maybe there will be an X-Files episode soon based
on ...  well...

Military or otherwise, everyone should be using AAT and LCTGM in
cataloging their collections.

Cheers,
Robert MacKimmie
California Historical Society, San Francisco
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