Getty Vocabularies (Getty Research Institute)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)®
AAT is a thesaurus containing generic terms in several languages, relationships, sources, and scope notes for agents, work types, roles, materials, styles, cultures, and techniques related to art, architecture, and other cultural heritage (e.g., amphora, oil paint, olieverf, acetolysis, sintering, orthographic drawings, Olmeca, Rinascimento, Buddhism, watercolors, asa-no-ha-toji, sralais).
Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)®
CONA focuses on architecture, multiples, and works depicted in other works. It is a thesaurus that includes titles, artist attribution, creation dates, relationships, and location for works both current and historical, documented as items or in groups, whether works are extant, destroyed, or planned but never built (e.g., Florentine Codex, Codice Fiorentino, Guernica, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Chayasomesvara Temple, Hagia Sofia, The Great Wave, Kanagawa oki nami ura, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, Venus de Milo).
Getty Iconography Authority (IA)™
IA is a thesaurus that includes proper names, relationships, and dates for iconographical narratives, religious or fictional characters, historical events, names of literary works and performing art. IA has a special focus on non-Western topics, with coreferences to other resources including Iconclass for overlapping Western themes (e.g., Bouddha couché, Adoration of the Magi, Flood of Deucalion, French Revolution, Xibalba, Niflheim, Shiva, Apedemak, Tumatauenga).
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®
TGN is a unique thesaurus that is global in scope but not comprehensive, focusing on places relevant to art, architecture, and related disciplines. Included are place names, rich relationships, place types, dates, notes, and coordinates for historical and current cities, nations, empires, archaeological sites, lost settlements, and physical features tailored to our core audience. TGN has coreferences to GIS and other resources (e.g., Thebes, Diospolis, Ottoman Empire, Mogao Caves, Ch'ien-fu-tung, Ganges River).
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)®
ULAN includes names, rich relationships, notes, sources, and biographical information for artists, architects, firms, studios, repositories, and patrons, both individuals and corporate bodies, named and anonymous. It may include coreferences to other resources to allow interconnections between related disciplines (e.g., Titian, Tiziano Vecellio, Mark Rothko, Cai Xiang, Crevole Master, Altobelli & Molins, Rajaraja Museum, Jenaer Glaswerk Schott).
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
CDWA is a set of guidelines and cataloging rules for the description of art, architecture, and other cultural works. CDWA advises which fields and categories in art metadata are appropriate for the use of Getty Vocabularies and other terminology resources. CDWA represents common practice and advises best practice for cataloging, based on surveys and consensus building with the user community.