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The tools listed on this page are useful for indexing pictorial and heritage collections.
Pathways : Gateway to the AIATSIS Thesauri
Pathways contains headings for place names, language groups and people, and subjects relating to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. These headings are used to describe all items held in the AIATSIS Catalog.
The APAIS thesaurus is a list of subject terms used to index articles for the Australian Public Affairs Information Service, a subject guide to literature in the social sciences and humanities.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
Published by the Getty Research Institute, the AAT is a structured vocabulary containing terms and descriptions for generic concepts related to art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture and archival material.
Geoscience Australia: Place Name Search
Geoscience Australia Place Name Search uses information from the Gazetteer of Australia 2008, which contains geographical names and variants in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names is a structured vocabulary containing names and other information about approximately 912,000 places. The temporal coverage of the TGN ranges from prehistory to the present and the scope is global. The TGN includes descriptions of significant physical, cultural or political aspects of places relative to art and architecture.
This site provides access to ICONCLASS an iconographic classification system. This system is a collection of approximately 28,000 hierarchically ordered definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas that can be the subject of a work of art.
LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) via the Library of Congress Online Catalog
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can search and browse approximately 265,000 subject authority records. Associated references and scope notes are also provided. In this free version of the Library of Congress Authorities it is not possible to search form, genre, or topical subject subdivisions or to display full subject heading hierarchies.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and by genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and other pictures. The subject and genre/format vocabularies, previously maintained separately as TGMI and TGMII, are now merged into a single list.
Library of Congress Classification Outline
This site provides a listing of the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. A breakdown of the subclasses is also available.
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists
This site provides weekly lists of new and changed subject headings that are posted on the Library of Congress Cataloging and Acquisitions website as they are approved.
Other Resources:
Macquarie Dictionary
5th edition
editor, Susan Butler
Sydney : Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, 2009
ISBN 9781876429669
Australia's national dictionary, containing distinctively Australian English terms, Australian regionalisms and a broad coverage of Aboriginal English.
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