5/4/2019
copyright J.Paul Getty Trust
Introduction to the AAT
revised May 2019 For educational purposes
Outside the scope of AAT:•
Geographic names (TGN)
Personal names (ULAN)
Corporate body names (ULAN)
Iconographic themes, named literature, named events, fictional and religious characte
rs (IA, Iconography Authority)
Titles of individual works of art or names of buildings (CONA)
SCOPE OF AAT
Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute.
Organization by culture or discipline is outside scope of AAT; AAT is a generic thesaurus (e.g., you cannot find all terms used for art conservation or all
terms used for Chinese art in
one hierarchy of the AAT); terms are spread throughout
Long descriptive phrases or headings, which are not terms, are outside the scope of AAT
Unbound compound concepts are outside scope of AAT