Useful Controlled Vocabulary Sources

Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2)
www.library.cornell.edu/tsmanual/CIRM/AACR2.html
ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (Z39.19)
www.niso.org/stantech.html
www.cni.org/pub/NISO/docs/Z39.50-brochure/50.brochure.toc.html
www.techstreet.com/nisogate.html
Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html
British Museum Materials Thesaurus
www.mdocassn.demon.co.uk/bmmat/matintro.htm
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/cdwa/
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)
www.cimi.org/index.html
Core Categories for Visual Resource (VRA Core)
www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/dsc.html
Corning Museum of Glass Glossary for Glassmaking Terms
www.cmog.org/Education/glgloss.htm
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
purl.oclc.org/dc/
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
purl.org/DC/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Version 1.1
www.cimi.org/old_site/documents/meta_bestprac_v022.html
Dublin Core Guide to Best Practice
www.cimi.org/old_site/standards/index.html#FIVE
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
lcweb.loc.gov/ead/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
memory.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/GLIN.html
Humanities Data Dictionary of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Publications/e_pddinfo.html
ICONCLASS
www.iconclass.nl/
Interagency Taxonomic Information System
www.itis.usda.gov/info.html
International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICM-CIDOC)
www.cidoc.icom.org/stand0.htm
International Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments [Draft] (CIDOC, ICOM)
www.natmus.min.dkcidoc/archsite/coredata/arch1.htm
International Core Data Standard for Ethnology/Ethography (CIDOC, ICOM)
www.cidoc.icom.org/ethst0.htm
International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: The CIDOC Information Categories (CIDOC, ICOM)
www.cidoc.icom.org/guide/guide.htm
Introduction to the Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments
www.cidoc.icom.org/arch0.htm
Introduction to Vocabularies (Getty Institute Tutuorial)
www.getty.edu/research/institute/vocabulary/introvocabs/
Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV)
lcweb.loc.gov/lexico/liv/brsearch.html
Library of Congress Classification
lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
Library of Congress home page
lcweb.loc.gov/
Library of Congress Thesauri (LCT)
lcweb.loc.gov/lexico/
Museum Documentation Association (MDA)
www.mda.org.uk/term-it/
Natural Sciences Data Dictionary of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
www.chin.gc.ca/Artefacts/RULS/e_hp_ruls.html
OCLC Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide (Second Edition)
www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9256cat/toc.htm
Object ID/Protecting Cultural Objects in the Global Information Society
www.object-id.com/
Princeton University Library Catalog Division Home Page
infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/cathome.html
Revised Nomenclature (RNMC) Chenhall Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging for classifying manmade objects - No Link for reference
Standards for Digital Information Interchange. A Resource Page (Arts and Humanities Data Service)
ahds.ac.uk/
Text Encoding Initiative
www.tei-c.org/
Thesaurus of Subject Terms (TGMI)
lcweb.loc.gov/lexico/tgm1/brsearch.html
Thesaurus of Genre and Physical Characteristics (TGM2)
lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/
USMARC Format for Bibliographic Data
lcweb.loc.gov/marc/
Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume (ICOM)
www.open.gov.uk/mdocassn/costume/vbt00e.htm

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