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copyright J.Paul Getty TrustIntroduction to the AATrevised May 2019 For educational purposesTABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface 3AAT in Context 5...Contributors 13...Users of Vocabs 15What is the AAT 18...Scope of AAT 23Data Elements in AAT 26...Record Type 30...Unique IDs 31...Terms 33......Preferred terms 41......Alternate Descriptors 50......Used For terms 51......Exact equivalents 54......More about terms 58......Compound terms 65......Pre- and Postcoordination 70......Qualifiers 75......Display order of terms 82......Dates for terms 84......Display vs indexing 85......Displaying AAT data 88Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute....Hierarchies 90......Facets of the AAT 92......Sub-Facets 96......Genus/species 98 ......Guide terms 103......Choosing the parent 108......Polyhierarchy 111......Facet code 114......Parent ID 115......Displaying the relationships 116......Sort order of hierarchy 118......Dates of hierarchical rel. 120...Associative relationships 121......Relationship types 128......Dates for associative rel. 132...Scope note 133...Sources 142......Finding terms in sources 145...Images 157...Languages 159......Coined terms and loan words 168......Diacritics and Unicode 171Contributions to AAT 172...Preferred term for contributor 173...Merging records 174...Translating the AAT 175......How to translate the AAT 177......Types of possible equivalences 179......Preferred term in target language 180......New candidate terms 183......Non-Roman alphabets 184......Translating scope notes 186Recent editorial issues 187Utilizing AAT 218...Specificity and exhaustivity 220...Homographs for end users 225...How are Vocabularies used? 227...What is LOD? 229