Historical Journeys with the Jonathan Ward Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Sr Editor Getty Vocabulary Program (TGN)
[email protected] © 2017 J. Paul Getty Trust, author: Jonathan Ward. Images: J. Paul Getty Trust; NYPL. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute Cave 85, Dunhuang, China Cave 85, view of the interior, Late Tang dynasty (848–907 CE). Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China. Courtesy the Dunhuang Academy © 2017 J. Paul Getty Trust. Image: J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute THE GETTY VOCABULARIES Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT); 41,855 records; 355,000 terms Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN); 1,475,816 records; 2,150,000 terms Union List of Artist Names (ULAN); 234,825 records; 645,000 names Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA, CONA IA) © 2017 J. Paul Getty Trust, author: Jonathan Ward. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute. TGN: •Unique IDs •Shares a core data structure with AAT, ULAN, CONA •Links: Hierarchical, Equivalence, Associative •Current and historic terms •Multilingual © 2017 J. Paul Getty Trust, author: Jonathan Ward. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute. Partial Display / TGN record ID: 7571465 Associative Relationships Names: capital of... Kuru Kingdom Place Types Hastināpur (preferred, English-P) [8711605] inhabited place AAT Hastināpura town Hierarchical Rels. (polyhierarchical) Hastinapura archaeological site Jastinápura World (facet) sacred site (Sanskrit) ....Asia (continent) हस�तनाप् ुर ........India (nation) Note: Noted for Old (Sanskrit) हस�तनाप् ुरम ् ............Uttar Pradesh (state) Pandeshwar Temple; was the Gajpur ................Hastināpur (inhabited pl.) capital of the Kuru dynasty of Kunjarpur kings; the epic "Mahabharata" is Shanti Nagar World (facet) set in Hastinapur.