Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

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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
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