Introduction to vocabularies : enhancing access to cultural heritage information
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Introduction to vocabularies : enhancing access to cultural heritage information
Getty Information Institute, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This text explains, demonstrates and advocates the use of controlled vocabularies in describing, cataloguing and documenting cultural heritage information. A study guide discusses vocabularies in the context of documentation, standards, and access.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 What is cultural heritage information and why is it important?: what is cultural heritage
- adding value to cultural heritage - interpretation, analysis, and access
- cultural heritage information - ten characteristics. Part 2 Documentation - analysing and recording information: different approaches to documentation
- vocabularies are the bridge
- documentation on the Web. Part 3 Standards - what role do they play?: why standards
- standards for improving documentation - data standards
- what are the benefits of standards. Part 4 What, why, and how of vocabularies: vocabularies as databases
- vocabularies - types and formats
- the role of authority work
- vocabulary building. Part 5 The Getty vocabularies - an introduction: the art and architecture thesaurus
- the union list of artist names
- the Getty thesaurus of geographic names. Part 6 Improving access using vocabularies - theory into practice: vocabularies as search assistants
- vocabularies in image databases
- vocabularies in library catalogues
- vocabularies in archival descriptions and cataloguing
- vocabularies in museum documentation
- vocabularies in indexes
- vocabularies browsers
- multilingual vocabularies. Resources: acronyms
- readings
- tools.
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