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Getty Vocabularies (AAT, TGN, ULAN)

Controlled vocabularies for art, architecture, historical place names and artist names.

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About this source

Term search and raw SPARQL over the Getty vocabularies: the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (concepts, materials, techniques), the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (historical and current places with hierarchy) and the Union List of Artist Names. Use it to normalise terminology and place names in catalogues and datasets.

Questions you can ask Getty Vocabularies

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Resolve a list of names to unique identifiers.

What comes back: Matched entities with identifiers, ambiguous matches flagged.

What the assistant can do with it

The 2 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • getty_search_term

    Find vocabulary entries by term.

  • getty_sparql

    Run a raw SPARQL SELECT against vocab.getty.edu (prefixes luc, gvp, skos, xl, dct, schema are predeclared).

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  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Getty Vocabularies.

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