The following announcement has been posted to multiple lists. Please excuse duplication. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bob Murphy +1-614-761-5136 murphyb at oclc.org Getty Vocabularies will soon be available through OCLC Terminologies Service Art & Architecture Thesaurus(r), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names(r), and Union List of Artist Names(r) Subscription service to be added to suite of thesauri DUBLIN, Ohio, November 7, 2006-OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) today announced that the Getty Vocabularies-the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and Union List of Artist Names-will be available through the OCLC Terminologies Service. The OCLC Terminologies Service is a Web service that was recently launched to provide libraries, museums, and archives access to a variety of thesauri through a single interface. It may be used as a standalone tool or may be used with different metadata editors, such as OCLC Connexion, CONTENTdm, or local systems. The Getty Vocabularies are the premier references for categorizing works of art, architecture, material culture, and the names of artists, architects and others. Editors in the Getty Vocabulary Program, an operating program of the Getty Research Institute, continually monitor developments in the cultural heritage field to maintain thesauri with terms, names and other information about people, places, things and concepts relating to art, architecture and material culture. "The development of these vocabularies has been an integral part of the history of the Getty. They have been the life work of many people and continue to be critical contributions to cultural heritage information management and documentation. It is deeply gratifying to see them made available broadly through this OCLC service to further aid in the management and cataloging of cultural heritage collections," said Ken Hamma, Executive Director for Digital Policy at the Getty Trust. To learn more about Getty Vocabularies, visit: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/. The addition of the Getty Vocabularies will add three new thesauri to the OCLC Terminologies Service suite that includes Medical Subject Headings (MeSH(r)) 2006; Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM I, Subject terms; Thesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms; Guidelines On Subject Access To Individual Works Of Fiction, Drama, Etc., 2nd ed., form and genre; Newspaper Genre List, and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Type Vocabulary. "OCLC intends to provide access to a broad range of vocabularies, leveraging the Web services platform we have developed. We are especially pleased to offer the Getty Vocabularies because their use by libraries, museums and archives will increase consistency and improve access to digital collections," said Phyllis B. Spies, Vice President, OCLC Collection Management Services. Benefits of the OCLC Terminologies Service include aggregating thesauri and other controlled vocabularies or lists that are in differing formats into one format, reducing the need to learn different searching techniques, searching across multiple thesauri, enabling the user to add more metadata through easy copy and paste, and by adding better access to materials for users searching catalogs or Web sites. The OCLC Terminologies Service grew from work in OCLC Research. Since its beginning in 1978, OCLC Research has investigated trends in technology and library practice to identify technological advances that will enhance the value of library services and improve the productivity of librarians and library users. Working closely with OCLC Research, RLG Programs, a unit formed when OCLC and RLG organizations were combined earlier this year, is a leading venue for applied research, community building and prototyping of systems and services that support research and learning. "We are pleased to see our work develop in this way," said Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research. "The shared interests of libraries, archives and museums in controlled vocabularies will be a focus of further investigation by Research and our RLG Programs colleagues moving forward." More information about the OCLC Terminologies Service is available at http://HYPERLINK "http://www.oclc.org/terminologies/"www.oclc.org/terminologies/ <http://HYPERLINK> . About OCLC Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, USA, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent and preservation services to 57,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. For more information, visit www.oclc.org. About the Getty Research Institute (GRI) The Getty Research Institute, an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, exists to bring together all the resources and activities required to advance understanding of the visual arts taken in their widest possible significance. For more information, visit http://www.getty.edu/research/. About the J. Paul Getty Trust The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that features the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute. The J. 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