Thesaurus
Structured vocabularies for both the arts and the sciences can be integrated into TMS through the Thesaurus Manager. TMS comes with The Getty Research Institute’s Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) and Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). Other hierarchies such as scientific taxonomies and Chenhall’s Nomenclature can also be incorporated. Additionally, users can add their own local terms to the thesaurus as needed.

The thesaurus can be used in two ways:

• As a set of controlled terms that can be linked to specific records to document content, descriptive information, or project status.
• As a tool that allows users to broaden text searching by including narrower terms in their searches. For example, a search on “wood” would yield results with specific woods such as hickory and oak.

Click here for more information about the Getty vocabularies.