The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and by genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and other pictures. In 2007, the subject and genre/format vocabularies, previously maintained separately, were merged into a single list and migrated to new software, MultiTes. New terms are added regularly. TGM is searchable through the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC). For questions about the thesaurus, contact TGM editors at: tgmed@loc.gov. (from homepage)

Prefix

loc.graphicmaterials

Keywords

design drawings ephemera format genre photographs prints visual materials

Links

Homepage RDF Request Discussion Part of loc

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

tgm000027   Resolve

Example CURIE

loc.graphicmaterials:tgm000027

Contact

Missing Contact

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier tgm000027 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Thesaurus for Graphic Materials. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.