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Linking Across the GettyReconciling the Getty Provenance Index and the Getty
Vocabularies
Melissa GillJonathan Ward
Getty Research Institute2018 ARLIS/NA
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Getty Provenance Index Remodel Project
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GPI artist authority database
GPI Knoedler stock books database
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Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)ArtistsBuyers and Sellers
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
Locations for buyers and sellers (City, State, Country)Known locations for objects
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
Object typesSubjects and genre termsCurrenciesUnits of measurementAttribution modifiers
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Things, not strings!“Peter Paul Rubens”
<http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500002921>
Pietro Paulo Rubens
ピーテル・パウル・ルーベンス
Petrus Paulus Rubensروبنسبولبيتر
P. P. Rubbens
Reconciliation
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Why not just publish a local
authority?
Thomas Waterman Wood, Thinking It Over, 1884, etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Wroth, 1969.20.9
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Getty Provenance
Index
Getty Vocabularies
shared entities
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Getty Provenance
IndexGetty
Vocabularies
shared entities after authority data contributions
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ULAN/GPI authority record ID concordance list
GPI artists authority dataset
Knoedler Stock Books dataset
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Implementation of the Getty Vocabularies Across Getty Systems• “Linked Art” model – unified semantic architecture for all Getty data
sets
• New services for discovery and reconciliation
• CIDOC-CRM ontology (and then some)
• ULAN ontology may change
• New applications for developers underway
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29,538 Provenance Artists
16,130 Provenance “Owners”
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• Merge records that match existing ULAN records.• Confirm data merged properly; review records.• Adjust criteria for merging with software engineer.
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• Extensive “de-duping” checks based on name.
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“Composite” records
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“Local Use” flag
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Finding Issues and Solutions
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Thank you!Melissa GillDigital Projects ManagerDigital Art [email protected]
Jonathan Ward Senior Data Standards EditorGetty Vocabulary [email protected]
Getty Provenance Index databaseshttp://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/search.html
Getty Provenance Index Remodel Projecthttp://getty.edu/provenance_remodel
Getty Vocabularieshttp://getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/
Getty Vocabularies (LOD) http://vocab.getty.edu/