General Resources and Data Content and Value Standards

General Resources

• Fox, Michael J. and Peter L. Wilkerson. Introduction to Archival Organization and Description
  (http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/
  standards/introarchives/index.html).
• International Council on Archives (ICA). ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description(http://www.ica.org/biblio/cds/isad_g_2e.pdf)
• Walch, Victoria, comp. Standards for Archival Description (http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/
  index.html)

Data Content and Value Standards

• Authority Files
  • Getty Research Institute.
    • Thesaurus of Graphic Names (TGM) (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
      tgn/)
    • Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
      ulan/)
  • Library of Congress. Authorities (includes Name Authority File) (http://authorities.loc.gov/)

• Content Standards
  • Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., rev. American Library Association (available in print or on the Library of Congress' Cataloger's Desktop CD-ROM).
  • Betz, Elizabeth W. Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections. Library of Congress
    (http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/grph0199.htm).
  • Cataloging Cultural Objects: a Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/)
  • Describing Archives: a Content Standard (http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=1279)
  • White-Hensen, Wendy. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual (available in print or on the Library of Congress' Cataloger's Desktop CD-ROM).

• Subject, Form/Genre, and Other Thesauri
  • American Library Association, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) (available in print only)
    • Binding Terms
    • Genre Terms
    • Paper Terms
    • Printing and Publishing Evidence
    • Provenance Evidence
    • Type Evidence
  • Getty Research Institute. Art and Architecture Thesaurus
    (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
    aat/index.html).
  • Library of Congress. Subject Headings (LCSH) (http://authorities.loc.gov/)
  • Library of Congress. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Subject Terms (TGMI)
    (http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico/).
  • Library of Congress. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGMII)
    (http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico/).
  • National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html)