Wikicatalog

Location

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Element name: Location/Site

Not required; Repeatable

types for location:

[creation]

[discovery]

[exhibition]

[former Site]

[Installation]

[Intended]

[other]

[performance]

[publication]

[site]

source codes:

Getty:

[TGN]

Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Library of Congress:

[LCSH]

Subject headings

Definition:

Where the work or its components was or were created, designed, or produced; it may also be the presumed original location of the work. For monumental works and architecture, the geographic location of the work. Geographic place where a work was excavated or discovered. This can be a general or a specific place, including the excavation site and the plot or section within the site. Places related to the exhibition, loan history, conservation, and historical context of the work

Wikicatalog Use:

List LARGE to SMALL. Country, City, Neighborhood, for example; or Country, County or State, City. Inclusion of a type attribute distinguishes between different kinds of locations, e.g. repository locations, creation locations, discovery locations, etc.. The optional extent attribute may also be used here to further specify or disambiguate geographic term types.

Data Values: TGN, BHA index, LCSH, Grove Dictionary of Art Location Appendix. Use of a separate Locations Authority, with data values populated from controlled vocabulary sources, is recommended. See CCO A2: Geographic Place Authority for further discussion about the role of a Geographic Place Authority