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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Index Art & Architecture Thesaurus

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a controlled vocabulary used for describing items of art, architecture, and material culture. [1]

51 relations: Amphora, Archaeology, Architect, Archive, Archivist, Art exhibition, Art history, Brewster Chair, Cataloging, Categories for the Description of Works of Art, Cathedral, Chinese language, Concept, Controlled vocabulary, Corrosion, Cultural Objects Name Authority, Curator, Editing, Engineering, Facade, Faceted classification, France, Garden, Getty Research Institute, Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Getty Vocabulary Program, Grammatical number, Hierarchy, Information retrieval, International Organization for Standardization, ISO 25964, ISO 2788, J. Paul Getty Trust, Landscape architect, Librarian, Linked data, Medical Subject Headings, Millwork (building material), Museum, National Information Standards Organization, Painting, Printmaking, Religious order, Research, Synonym, Taiwan, Tang dynasty, Thesaurus, Thomas Chippendale, Union List of Artist Names, ..., Williamstown, Massachusetts. Expand index (1 more) »

Amphora

An amphora (Greek: ἀμφορεύς, amphoréus; English plural: amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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Archivist

An archivist (AR-kiv-ist) is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value.

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Art exhibition

An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience.

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Art history

Art history is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts; that is genre, design, format, and style.

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Brewster Chair

A Brewster Chair is a style of turned chair made in mid-17th-century ("Pilgrim Century") New England, United States.

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Cataloging

In library and information science, cataloging (or cataloguing) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc.

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Categories for the Description of Works of Art

Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) describes the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing and accessing information about works of art, architecture, other material culture, groups and collections of works, and related images.

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Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Concept

Concepts are mental representations, abstract objects or abilities that make up the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

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Controlled vocabulary

Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval.

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more chemically-stable form, such as its oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide.

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Cultural Objects Name Authority

The Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) is a project by the Getty Research Institute to create a controlled vocabulary containing authority records for cultural works, including architecture and movable works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, textiles, ceramics, furniture, other visual media such as frescoes and architectural sculpture, performance art, archaeological artifacts, and various functional objects that are from the realm of material culture and of the type collected by museums.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

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Facade

A facade (also façade) is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front.

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Faceted classification

A Faceted classification is a classification scheme used in organizing knowledge into a systematic order.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.

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Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (abbreviated TGN or GTGN) is a product of the J. Paul Getty Trust included in the Getty Vocabulary Program.

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Getty Vocabulary Program

The Getty Vocabulary Program is a department within the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two", or "three or more").

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Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from the Greek hierarchia, "rule of a high priest", from hierarkhes, "leader of sacred rites") is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) in which the items are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another A hierarchy can link entities either directly or indirectly, and either vertically or diagonally.

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Information retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources.

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

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ISO 25964

ISO 25964 is the international standard for thesauri, published in two parts as follows: It was issued by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and its official website is maintained by its Secretariat in NISO, the USA National Information Standards Organization.

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ISO 2788

ISO 2788 was the ISO international standard for monolingual thesauri for information retrieval, first published in 1974 and revised in 1986.

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J. Paul Getty Trust

The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's wealthiest art institution with an estimated endowment in 2017 of $US 6.9 billion.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Librarian

A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, providing access to information and sometimes social or technical programming.

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Linked data

In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries.

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Medical Subject Headings

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences; it serves as a thesaurus that facilitates searching.

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Millwork (building material)

Millwork building materials are historically any woodmill-produced building construction interior-finish, exterior-finish, or decorative components.

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Museum

A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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National Information Standards Organization

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Religious order

A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice.

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Research

Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.

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Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Thesaurus

In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order.

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Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale (1718 – 1779) was born in Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in June 1718.

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Union List of Artist Names

The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free online database of the Getty Research Institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by 2018 contained over 300,000 artists and over 720,000 names for them, as well as other information about artists.

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Williamstown, Massachusetts

Williamstown is a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%26_Architecture_Thesaurus

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