• Collections & Technical Services
• Mar 07
• Issue: 210

Three New Databases Added to the OCLC Terminologies Service

The OCLC Terminologies Service provides access to multiple controlled vocabularies for the creation of consistent metadata for library, museum, or archive collections. The service can be integrated with Connexion or used as a standalone tool to copy and paste terms into a variety of metadata editors including CONTENTdm.

Three databases from the J. Paul Getty Trust were added to the OCLC Terminologies Service in February: the Art & Architecture Thesaurus® (MARC code aat), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® (tgn), and the Union List of Artist Names® (ulan). The other vocabularies available in the Terminologies Service are:

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Type Vocabulary (dct)
• Guidelines On Subject Access To Individual Works Of Fiction, Drama, Etc., 2nd ed., form and genre (gsafd)
• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) 2006 (mesh)
• Newspaper Genre List (ngl)
• Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM I, Subject terms (lctgm)
• Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms (gmgpc)

If you already have a Connexion, or other OCLC cataloging authorization, you may begin using the Terminologies Service immediately. It is available to you as a benefit of your cataloging subscription. For information on using the OCLC Terminologies Service, see the setup instructions at http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/terminologies/setup/default.htm or view a tutorial available at http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/tutorials/terminologies/setup.htm.

[Lynne Graziadei, Collections and Technical Services Librarian, Nylink]

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