Author Description

The Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Second Edition with the Authority Reference Tool Version 2.1 is designed to give immediate and intuitive access to the AAT. Version 2.1 includes all new data since the publication of AAT:ART 2.0 (1994). This version now contains over 110,000 terms, with over 25,000 descriptors, or main terms. The second edition of the AAT offers the most comprehensive vocabulary available for the description and cataloguing of objects, textual materials and images of art, architecture and material culture of the Western world from antiquity to the present. Those engaged with the organization, description and retrieval of information in museums, archives, libraries and visual resources collections will appreciate the AAT's flexibility of use and the broad scope and depth of the vocabulary. Users of the electronic edition can navigate the various levels of the thesaurus and "cut-and-paste" terms into a word-processing document or database record. Anyone desiring access to the rich terminology of the AAT while working on a computer file will find this version invaluable.