The documents on this page include presentations and other training materials for the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®, the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)®, the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)®, the Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)™, Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA), Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO), and standards in general. These materials are subject to frequent modification and addition.

Introduction to the Getty Vocabularies and contributing
Presentations describing the history, scope, and characteristics of the Getty Vocabularies and how to contribute to them. For more details on contributions, see Contributing to the Getty Vocabularies. For detailed editorial rules for contributing, see the Editorial Guidelines.

Introduction to CDWA, CCO, CDWA Lite, and Access to Digital Materials
Presentations describing standards for cataloging art and related materials, including Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA), Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO), CDWA Lite XML Schema for contributing art records via the OAI harvesting protocol, and other general information about standards and related projects.

International Terminology Working Group meeting
Presentations delivered at a meeting of institutions working with controlled vocabularies in the U.S., Chile, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Germany, New Zealand, Italy, and Brazil, 7-10 November 2011. Topics included progress on translations of the AAT and future contributions to CONA, among other topics.