Glossary
- AAT
- The Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
A vocabulary provided by the Getty.
- Getty
- The J. Paul Getty Trust is a cultural and philanthropic institution dedicated
to critical thinking in the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy.
Through the collective and individual work of its constituent Programs—Getty Conservation Institute,
Getty Foundation, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Getty Research Institute—it pursues its mission in Los Angeles and throughout the world,
serving both the general interested public and a wide range of professional communities with the conviction
that a greater and more profound sensitivity to and knowledge of the visual arts
and their many histories are crucial to the promotion of a vital and civil society.
More information: http://www.getty.edu
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework. A very flexible
model for data definition organised around triples. These triples forms a
directed, labeled graph, where the edges represent the named link between
two resources, represented by the graph nodes.
- SKOS
- Simple Knowledge Organization System. An
general specification for Knowledge Organisation Systems (thesauri, word
lists, authority files, ...) that is commonly serialised as RDF.
- TGN
- The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
A vocabulary provided by the Getty.
- URI
- A Uniform Resource Identifier.
- URN
- A URN is a specific form of a URI.