On a related topic, I had some discussions with the Getty Information
Institute (publishers of the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, the Union
List of Artists Names and soon the Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
recently, and they expressed an interest in producing an authoritative
registry of their scheme names, descriptions, versions etc. for use with
DC metadata.
I hadn't previously considered the need to enter the 'namespace' of the
authorities' facets themselves though... would these also need to be
registered?
T.
David Bearman wrote:
>
> Misha,
> The AAT hierarchies (scheme facets) have two letter codes. The ones most
> likely to be used by the DC community are:
> HG (People and Organizations, wherein are all roles)
> FL (Styles and Periods, wherein are all nationalities, a well as periods)
> KD (disciplines)
> KT (Process and techniques)
> MT (Materials)
> VW (Document Types)
>
> Using your structure, I would guess these would be referred to as AAT:HG
> or AAT:FL etc.
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