Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

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What is this code? A special th

esaurus code required by some

catalogers who use the MARC

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In early releases of the AAT, al

pha-numeric codes (Classification

Notation) were used to allow the construction of the hierarchies

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Upper levels of this notation is

retained in the Facet/Hierarchy

Code

With modern methods of constructing hierarchies, the facet codes are needed by very few users

facet/hierarchy Code

Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute.