{"name":"artlito controlled-vocabulary crosswalk","description":"artlito's discipline and medium vocabularies mapped to the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus and Wikidata, with an explicit SKOS match type on every mapping.","version":"1.0.0","verifiedOn":"2026-08-06","url":"https://artlito.com/vocabulary","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","attribution":"artlito — https://artlito.com/vocabulary","authorities":[{"prefix":"aat","name":"Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus","uriBase":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/"},{"prefix":"wikidata","name":"Wikidata","uriBase":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/"}],"matchTypes":{"exact":"skos:exactMatch — interchangeable with the artlito value.","close":"skos:closeMatch — usable interchangeably in some contexts but not all.","broad":"skos:broadMatch — the authority concept is wider than the artlito value."},"terms":[{"value":"photography","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300389795","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300389795","label":"photography (discipline)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q11633","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11633","label":"photography","match":"exact"}},{"value":"painting","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054216","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054216","label":"painting (image-making)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q11629","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11629","label":"painting","match":"exact"},"note":"Both authorities also carry the works: aat:300033618 “paintings (visual works)”, wikidata:Q3305213."},{"value":"sculpture","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300047090","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047090","label":"sculpture (visual works)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q11634","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11634","label":"art of sculpture","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT models the works; artlito’s facet is the practice. Wikidata separates the two and the practice item is the exact one."},{"value":"installation","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300047896","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047896","label":"installations (visual works)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q212431","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q212431","label":"installation art","match":"exact"},"note":"Same works-versus-practice difference as sculpture."},{"value":"performance","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300121445","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300121445","label":"performance art","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q213156","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q213156","label":"performance art","match":"exact"},"note":"Not the performing arts. Both authorities carry that warning on the concept itself."},{"value":"drawing & print","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054196","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054196","label":"drawing (image-making)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q2921001","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2921001","label":"art of drawing","match":"close"},"note":"A compound facet: the print half maps to aat:300041273 “prints (visual works)” and wikidata:Q271588 “printmaking”. Neither authority has one concept spanning both."},{"value":"printmaking","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300131119","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300131119","label":"printmaking","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q271588","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q271588","label":"printmaking","match":"exact"}},{"value":"video","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054153","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054153","label":"video (discipline)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q682010","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q682010","label":"video art","match":"close"},"note":"AAT distinguishes the discipline (300054153) from the art form (300102067 “video art”); Wikidata carries only the art form at this level."},{"value":"film","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054141","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054141","label":"film (discipline)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q13400901","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13400901","label":"filmmaking","match":"close"},"note":"Wikidata’s Q11424 “film” names the work, not the discipline."},{"value":"sound","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300387583","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300387583","label":"sound art","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1744327","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1744327","label":"sound art","match":"exact"}},{"value":"new media","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300386814","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386814","label":"new media art","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q378604","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q378604","label":"new media art","match":"exact"}},{"value":"textile","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300386843","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386843","label":"textile art (visual works)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q10988986","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10988986","label":"textile art","match":"exact"},"note":"The AAT concept names the works; the material is aat:300014063 “textiles (visual works)”."},{"value":"ceramics","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300151343","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300151343","label":"ceramics (object genre)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q13464614","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13464614","label":"ceramic art","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT models ceramics as an object genre rather than a practice."},{"value":"glass","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300053929","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300053929","label":"glassworking","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1089246","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1089246","label":"studio glass","match":"close"},"note":"Neither authority carries “glass art” as a discipline. AAT’s nearest is the activity; Wikidata’s is the studio-glass movement. The material is aat:300010797 “glass (material)” / wikidata:Q11469."},{"value":"collage","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300138699","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300138699","label":"collage (technique)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q170593","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q170593","label":"collaging","match":"exact"},"note":"The works are aat:300033963 “collages (visual works)” / wikidata:Q22669857."},{"value":"digital art","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300386810","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386810","label":"digital art (visual works)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q860372","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q860372","label":"digital art","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT names the resulting works rather than the practice; it has no separate digital-art discipline concept."},{"value":"illustration","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054200","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054200","label":"illustration (process)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q21550668","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21550668","label":"illustration","match":"exact"},"note":"The process sense in both. The picture itself is aat:300015578 / wikidata:Q178659."},{"value":"animation","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300053160","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300053160","label":"animation (process)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q11425","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11425","label":"animation","match":"exact"}},{"value":"design","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054171","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054171","label":"design (discipline)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q82604","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q82604","label":"design","match":"exact"}},{"value":"jewellery","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300209286","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300209286","label":"jewelry","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q161439","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q161439","label":"jewelry","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT’s concept names the objects worn; Wikidata separates the making (Q161439) from the objects (Q2142903), and artlito’s facet is the making."},{"value":"architecture","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054156","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054156","label":"architecture (discipline)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q12271","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12271","label":"architecture","match":"exact"}},{"value":"mixed media","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300163347","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300163347","label":"mixed media","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1902763","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1902763","label":"mixed media","match":"exact"}},{"value":"multidisciplinary","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300189701","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300189701","label":"intermedia (concept)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q104863444","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104863444","label":"interdisciplinary arts","match":"close"},"note":"Neither authority carries “multidisciplinary practice” as an art-world facet. Both nearest concepts describe merging forms rather than a practitioner working across several."},{"value":"writing","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300417585","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300417585","label":"literature (general genre)","match":"broad"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q37260","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37260","label":"writing","match":"broad"},"note":"Deliberately broad. Text-first works also carry a medium value — poetry, prose, essay, text — and those rows map far more precisely than this facet can."},{"value":"research","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054687","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054687","label":"research (function)","match":"broad"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q20827087","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20827087","label":"artistic research","match":"close"},"note":"AAT’s concept is research in general; Wikidata carries the art-world sense specifically, so the two differ in width on purpose."},{"value":"collecting","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300077121","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300077121","label":"collecting","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q31916432","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q31916432","label":"art collecting","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT’s concept covers collecting anything."},{"value":"museum","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300312281","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300312281","label":"museums (institutions)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q33506","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33506","label":"museum","match":"exact"},"note":"An institutional facet, not a practice — it marks what a profile IS. The building is aat:300005768."},{"value":"gallery","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300312243","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300312243","label":"art galleries (institutions)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1007870","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1007870","label":"art gallery","match":"exact"},"note":"Institutional, like museum. artlito records no venue type beyond this, which is why profile JSON-LD emits Organization and never ArtGallery."},{"value":"craft","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054704","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054704","label":"crafts (art genres)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q2207288","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2207288","label":"craft","match":"close"},"note":"Wikidata’s item is skilled work in general; AAT scopes it to the art genre."},{"value":"comics","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300015635","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015635","label":"comics (documents)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1004","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1004","label":"comic","match":"close"},"note":"Both authorities name the works; artlito’s facet is the practice."},{"value":"street art","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300056477","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300056477","label":"street art","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q17516","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17516","label":"street art","match":"exact"}},{"value":"traditional arts","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300056487","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300056487","label":"folk art (traditional art)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q25507535","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25507535","label":"traditional art","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT files this under folk art, which carries a narrower European art-historical framing than artlito’s facet intends."},{"value":"curation","kind":"discipline","aat":{"id":"300054277","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054277","label":"curating","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q63386008","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63386008","label":"curating","match":"exact"}},{"value":"silver gelatin print","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300128695","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300128695","label":"gelatin silver prints","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q64029133","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64029133","label":"gelatin silver print","match":"exact"},"note":"Both authorities order the words the other way round — “gelatin silver”. artlito keeps the form photographers actually write."},{"value":"c-print","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300236285","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300236285","label":"chromogenic color prints","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q5113880","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5113880","label":"chromogenic print","match":"exact"}},{"value":"archival pigment","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300456818","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300456818","label":"pigment prints (digital inkjet)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q130443678","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130443678","label":"inkjet print","match":"close"},"note":"“Archival pigment” is a trade description rather than a controlled term. Do not confuse it with aat:300128234 “pigment prints (analog process)”, which is a different family entirely."},{"value":"oil on linen","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300015050","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015050","label":"oil paint (paint)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q296955","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q296955","label":"oil paint","match":"close"},"note":"A compound of medium and support. The support is aat:300014069 “linen (material)” / wikidata:Q1426327."},{"value":"oil on canvas","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300015050","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015050","label":"oil paint (paint)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q296955","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q296955","label":"oil paint","match":"close"},"note":"A compound of medium and support. The support is aat:300014078 “canvas (textile material)” / wikidata:Q12321255."},{"value":"acrylic on canvas","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300015058","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015058","label":"acrylic paint","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q207849","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q207849","label":"acrylic paint","match":"close"},"note":"Same compound shape: the support is aat:300014078 / wikidata:Q12321255."},{"value":"mixed media","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300163347","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300163347","label":"mixed media","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1902763","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1902763","label":"mixed media","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT calls it an “information indicator” rather than a material — which is exactly why listing the actual materials alongside it serves a reader better."},{"value":"installation view","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300445638","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300445638","label":"exhibition installation photographs","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q136095312","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q136095312","label":"exhibition installation photograph","match":"exact"},"note":"This value describes a documentation photograph, not an installation. The artwork itself would be aat:300047896."},{"value":"sculpture","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300047090","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300047090","label":"sculpture (visual works)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q860861","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q860861","label":"sculpture","match":"exact"}},{"value":"works on paper","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300189621","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300189621","label":"works on paper","match":"exact"},"note":"Wikidata has no concept for the collective category — every candidate returned is an exhibition of that name or an individual artwork. Left unmapped rather than forced."},{"value":"video","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300102067","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300102067","label":"video art","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q98069877","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q98069877","label":"video","match":"broad"},"note":"As a MEDIUM the value names the carrier; as a discipline it maps differently — see the discipline row."},{"value":"photograph","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300046300","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300046300","label":"photographs","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q125191","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125191","label":"photograph","match":"exact"}},{"value":"screenprint","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300178688","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300178688","label":"screen prints","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q22569957","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22569957","label":"screen print","match":"exact"},"note":"The process is aat:300053281 “screen printing” / wikidata:Q187791."},{"value":"lithograph","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300041379","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041379","label":"lithographs","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q15123870","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15123870","label":"lithograph print","match":"exact"},"note":"The process is aat:300053271 “lithography” / wikidata:Q133036."},{"value":"etching","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300041365","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041365","label":"etchings (prints)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q18218093","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18218093","label":"etching print","match":"exact"},"note":"The printmaking process is aat:300053241 / wikidata:Q186986. AAT also carries an unrelated “etching (corroding)” (300053840) — the wrong one to cite."},{"value":"watercolour","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300078925","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300078925","label":"watercolors (paintings)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q18761202","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18761202","label":"watercolor painting","match":"exact"},"note":"The technique is aat:300389895; the paint is wikidata:Q3374389."},{"value":"gouache","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300078928","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300078928","label":"gouaches (paintings)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q21281546","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21281546","label":"gouache painting","match":"exact"},"note":"The paint is aat:300070114 / wikidata:Q204330; the technique is aat:300404215."},{"value":"charcoal","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300390908","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300390908","label":"charcoal drawings","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1424515","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1424515","label":"charcoal","match":"close"},"note":"The artlito value names the material, but on a work record it means the drawing. The material alone is aat:300012862."},{"value":"ink on paper","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300015012","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015012","label":"ink","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q127418","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127418","label":"ink","match":"close"},"note":"A compound of medium and support; the resulting object sits under aat:300189621 “works on paper”."},{"value":"bronze","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300010957","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300010957","label":"bronze (metal)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q34095","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34095","label":"bronze","match":"exact"},"note":"The cast works are aat:300047333 “bronzes (visual works)”."},{"value":"ceramic","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300235507","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300235507","label":"ceramic (material)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q45621","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45621","label":"ceramic","match":"exact"}},{"value":"textile","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300014063","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300014063","label":"textiles (visual works)","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q28823","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28823","label":"textile","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT’s concept collects the finished works (carpets, fabrics, costume); as a work’s medium the value means the material. The art form is aat:300386843."},{"value":"digital","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300404196","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404196","label":"digital","match":"broad"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q860372","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q860372","label":"digital art","match":"close"},"note":"A catch-all value. AAT’s “digital” is an attribute of a device or work, not an art form — which is the honest reading of what this medium records."},{"value":"sound","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300028633","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028633","label":"sound recordings","match":"close"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q1744327","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1744327","label":"sound art","match":"close"},"note":"AAT’s concept is the carrier, Wikidata’s is the art form. The value spans both."},{"value":"performance documentation","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300121445","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300121445","label":"performance art","match":"broad"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q213156","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q213156","label":"performance art","match":"broad"},"note":"Neither authority carries a concept for the documentation of a performance. The documenting activity is aat:300054638 “documentation (activity)”; the pairing is the closest honest reading."},{"value":"film","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300136900","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300136900","label":"motion pictures (visual works)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q11424","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11424","label":"film","match":"exact"}},{"value":"poetry","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300055931","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055931","label":"poetry","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q482","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q482","label":"poetry","match":"exact"}},{"value":"prose","kind":"medium","wikidata":{"id":"Q676","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q676","label":"prose","match":"exact"},"note":"AAT carries no concept for prose as a form. Its nearest term, aat:300252910 “prose poems”, is a different thing and is deliberately NOT used here."},{"value":"essay","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300026291","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026291","label":"essays","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q35760","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35760","label":"essay","match":"exact"}},{"value":"text","kind":"medium","aat":{"id":"300263751","uri":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263751","label":"texts (documents)","match":"exact"},"wikidata":{"id":"Q234460","uri":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q234460","label":"text","match":"exact"}}]}