from Patricia Harpring, Managing Editor, Getty Vocabulary Program
The 2009 releases of data files for AAT, ULAN, and TGN are now available to licensees. The data files are released annually, in June or July of each year. If you already have a license that is still active, you can download fresh files with your current password. If you need to renew your license or the password does not work, please write to [log in to unmask] Sample files and licensing information is available on this page: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/download.html. (For those of you who cut-and-paste from the Web site rather than working with raw data files, note that the online "browser" version of the data is refreshed at the beginning of each month.)
Formats of future releases: For releases beginning in 2010, we plan to release the data in XML and Relational Tables formats only, discontinuing the MARC format. If you have comments regarding this proposed change, please contact us at [log in to unmask] With this change, we will also institute Unicode in our data, replacing our $xx diacritic codes. We will then release the data in relational tables and XML UTF-8 format only.
Web services: The Getty Vocabulary Program, together Getty Information Technology Services (ITS), is developing a set of Web services APIs (application programming interfaces) to enable access to the most up-to-date version of the Getty vocabulary data in real time. The APIs are currently being Beta tested. If your institution would like to be a tester, please write to [log in to unmask]
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