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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 Historymgill@getty.edu

Jonathan Ward Senior Data Standards EditorGetty Vocabulary Programjward@getty.edu

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/