Opening Artists' Books: towards a common descriptive vocabulary in support of teaching, learning, cataloging, and curation
Opening Artists’ Books (OAB) intends to facilitate access to artists’ books in collections that utilize standard cataloging procedures. By linking commonly used vocabulary to controlled vocabularies, we hope that scholars, makers, and community users of artists’ books will be better equipped to research individual interests. The site is a work in progress and currently provides definitions of terms used to describe binding styles/book structures and production techniques/media as well as visual exemplars and resources for further investigation. The site continues the work of the ARLIS-NA Artists Book Thesaurus (ABT) and includes the findings of that project in addition to expanded terms and links to cataloging databases such as Library of Congress Genre and Form Index (LCGF), Getty Research Institute Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), and Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Controlled Vocabularies (RBMS).
Opening Artists’ Books (OAB) intends to facilitate access to artists’ books in collections that utilize standard cataloging procedures. By linking commonly used vocabulary to controlled vocabularies, we hope that scholars, makers, and community users of artists’ books will be better equipped to research individual interests. The site is a work in progress and currently provides definitions of terms used to describe binding styles/book structures and production techniques/media as well as visual exemplars and resources for further investigation. The site continues the work of the ARLIS-NA Artists Book Thesaurus (ABT) and includes the findings of that project in addition to expanded terms and links to cataloging databases such as Library of Congress Genre and Form Index (LCGF), Getty Research Institute Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), and Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Controlled Vocabularies (RBMS).
Opening Artists’ Books (OAB) intends to facilitate access to artists’ books in collections that utilize standard cataloging procedures. By linking commonly used vocabulary to controlled vocabularies, we hope that scholars, makers, and community users of artists’ books will be better equipped to research individual interests. The site is a work in progress and currently provides definitions of terms used to describe binding styles/book structures and production techniques/media as well as visual exemplars and resources for further investigation. The site continues the work of the ARLIS-NA Artists Book Thesaurus (ABT) and includes the findings of that project in addition to expanded terms and links to cataloging databases such as Library of Congress Genre and Form Index (LCGF), Getty Research Institute Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), and Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Controlled Vocabularies (RBMS).
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