"temporary alphabetical list"

[Henk Vanstappen]

Hi, 

Some concepts in AAT are in a "temporary alphabetical list" hierarchy, e.g. <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems> (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300411913).

Can anybody explain what this exactly means? And if it is safe to use these concepts?

tx!

Henk

[Gregg Garcia]

Hi, Henk.

From Patricia Harpring, managing editor of the Vocabulary program:

Yes, safe to use.  Those records will eventually be moved to more permanent hierarchical positions, but the ID is not likely to change.  As is true with any ID, on extremely rare occasions it could be merged with another record and ID could change. 

Hope this helps.

Gregg Garcia

Software Architect

Getty Digital   

[Henk Vanstappen]

Hi Gregg,

Great, thanks!

The obvious next question is: how can we keep track of changed IDs? Are they resolved to the new ID?

thanks again,

Henk

Datable BV

Op donderdag 12 november 2020 om 17:59:41 UTC+1 schreef Gregg Garcia:

[Baer,Helen]

Thanks for asking, Henk. I had wondered about this too.

 

Helen Baer

Colorado State University

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[Gregg Garcia]

There are a few mechanisms you can use to check the status of a Vocabulary record. The XML webservices (https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/vocab_web_services.pdf) has a  GetMergedSubjectID endpoint for each Vocab where you can input a date range and get back all merged records.

There is also an XML service that returns the current ID for any record, whether or not it has been merged:

http://vocabsservices.getty.edu/AATService.asmx/AATGetSyncSubjectID?subjectID=300012738

The Vocab LOD data also flags merged records as a gvp:ObsoleteSubject and then points to record that replaces it using the dctems:isReplacedBy property.

 http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300012738

Hope this helps.

Gregg Garcia
Software Architect
Getty Digital, J. Paul Getty Trust

[Vladimir Alexiev]

See http://vocab.getty.edu/doc/#Obsolete_Subject and http://vocab.getty.edu/doc/#Revision_History.

The documentation is pretty good, I wonder why people don't often read it ;-)