Developing a New Thesaurus for Art and Architecture.

Petersen, Toni

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Publication Date: 1990

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Developing a New Thesaurus for Art and Architecture.

Petersen, Toni

Library Trends, v38 n4 p644-58 Spr 1990

This description of the development of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus from 1979 to the present explains the processes and policies that were used to construct a language designed to represent knowledge in art and architecture, as well as to be a surrogate for the image and object being described. (EAM)

Descriptors: Architecture, Archives, Indexes, Libraries, Machine Readable Cataloging, Museums, Subject Index Terms, Thesauri, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information), Vocabulary

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