Union List of Artist Names

Tue, 2010-04-27 10:16 — Anonymous (not verified)

“ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 127,000 records, including 375,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants."

General information

Vocabulary alternative name or acronym:

ULAN

Vocabulary type:

thes

Available formats:

XML UTF-8 and relational tables

Vocabulary Sample URL:

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/overview_... (pp. 18ff). Sample records available for download at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/download....

Was vocabulary created as a course project:

Scope and Usage

Purpose:

“The ... Getty vocabularies are intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture and material culture.”

Used By:

“The primary users of the Getty vocabularies include museums, art libraries, archives, visual resource collection catalogers, bibliographic projects concerned with art, researchers in art and art history, and the information specialists who are dealing with the needs of these users. In addition, a significant number of users of the Getty vocabularies are students or members of the general public.”

Vocabulary characteristics

Type of display :

hier

full

Relationship types:

eq_pri_eq

hier_bn

rel_t

Number of terms:

375,000

Number of preferred terms:

127,000

Terms and Conditions

Licensing Options:

Companies and institutions interested in regular or extensive use of the Getty vocabularies should explore licensing options by sending an email to vocab@getty.edu.

Import/download instructions :

At http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/download.html

Provider

Vocabulary provider name:

The Getty Vocabulary Program, The J. Paul Getty Trust

Provider URL:

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/

Provider contact details:

vocab@getty.edu