Mike,
The Getty Research Institute has compiled the following which you may find helpful:
The Art and Architecture Thesaurus
The Union List of Artist Names
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
all available at
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
Mike Jusko
Senior Art Archivist
Walt Disney Imagineering
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:13:02 -0400
From: Michael and Mary Tobin Oates <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cataloguing Advice Needed
Hello there,
I am setting about the task of cleaning up our collection database.
Ours is not a large collection, and includes furniture, decorative arts
items, and several hundred works of art, 2-d and 3-d.
Over the years, it seems that the registrars have let errors in
classification creep in, and I am looking to remedy that.
I am looking for some help in my search for reference materials that
will define all of the terms I will use to describe the collection. Is
there a standard reference manual for the art items, and decorative arts
in general?? In the near future, I hope to have this data converted and
inserted into a new, more modern collection management software package.
I would use the included dictionary to continue at that point, but this
data tune-up is the first step. Any suggestions for me??
Many thanks in advance
Mike Oates
Ottawa, Canada
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