Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

precoordination

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How to index this?

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Compound terms may be constructed in the work record

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Opus Anglicanum, Chasuble, 1330–1350; ;English; England; Fletcher Fund, 1927 (27.162.1); from http://www.metmuseum.org/

Material:

red silk

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Advantage of

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“precoordination” is that the terms stay together

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E.g., if you have a red silk and black wool vestment, indexing could bind “red” and “silk” together

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

Materials:

red silk velvet and black wool, with

metallic thread in the embroidery