9 posts tagged with "Network of Terms"

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), maintained by the Getty Research Institute, is currently experiencing availability problems. As a result, searching the AAT through the Network of Terms often returns no results, or results only after a long wait – both on the website and in collection management systems that use it. Other terminology sources are working normally; the AAT terms themselves can still be consulted directly on Getty’s own site.

The Network of Terms is increasingly becoming part of the infrastructure used to search, identify and reuse terminology across the Dutch cultural heritage network. Grafana gives us a useful view of how the service is being used.

For the period from 1 January to 10 August 2026, the supplied Grafana export records 11,238,305 user queries and 15,256,333 requests to terminology sources.

A while ago we added worldwide GeoNames to the Network of Terms. That post announced the what; this one is the how, because getting GeoNames in there was less obvious than it sounds.

GeoNames has no usable RDF. There is official ‘RDF’, but it dates from 2020, it is broken RDF/XML and incomplete anyway. There’s also per-resource RDF, but that’s hard to work with for 13M+ resources. So we fell back to the TSV dump: messy, but recent and complete. This is the story of converting that TSV to RDF using only the SPARQL we already know. And of why the pipeline around the conversion is what turns a one-off experiment into an actual service.

The Network of Terms now offers the ability to filter by subject within a terminology source.

The Network of Terms now monitors each terminology source and exposes its availability via the website and the GraphQL API.

New thesaurus for movable agricultural heritage available via the Network of Terms

The Network of Terms has been expanded with four new thesauri. These sources provide access to knowledge about heritage, history, regional topics and social themes, and supply concepts for describing and linking heritage information.

The Network of Terms now includes GeoNames places from all over the world.

The Network of Terms now supports multilingual searches and lookups.