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This is what we worked out for the Royal Ontario Museum's Art & Culture Classification. We also have a separate system for Material Group. Our Classification is based on the Objects Facet of the AAT (https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getty.edu%2Fresearch%2Ftools%2Fvocabularies%2Faat%2F&data=05%7C01%7CTMSUSERS%40SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU%7Cbf720cfe78a049e54e3208da754bf131%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637951266272123716%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RSMfczGXvFCks%2Bo5fXBX5LbynhueGvfQsP8vwzT0oew%3D&reserved=0) where they are in the following order:

Built Environment = AAT Built Environment (hierarchy name) of Objects Facet, includes tents.
Furnishings = AAT Furnishings, under Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) of Objects Facet, includes furniture, lamps, rugs, curtains, etc
Armour = AAT Armor (protective wear), under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels because no one will want to browse through clothing trying to stumble across armour..
Clothing = AAT clothing, under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels because many people want adornment, specifically jewellery, to be separate.
Costume Accessories = AAT costume accessories, under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels just because.
Jewellery = AAT jewelry, under costume accessories / worn costume accessories, under Costume, which is under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet; brought up a few levels because adornment objects are of great importance in the collection, including Earth Science collections.
Tools & Equipment = AAT Tools and Equipment, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Weapons & Ammunition = AAT Weapons and Ammunition, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Containers = AAT Containers, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Musical Instruments = AAT Sound Devices, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet.
Recreational Objects = AAT Recreational Artifacts, under Furnishings and Equipment of Objects Facet
Transportation Objects = AAT Transportation Vehicles (bits of vehicles are hypothetically under Components, and other objects that might be related to transportation, such as stirrups, are in Tools and Equipment. The AAT is
unsatistactory on this, but the only option is to consider all things associated with transportation to be Tools and Equipment
Religious & Ceremonial Objects = AAT ceremonial objects, under object genres by function, under Object Genres. Religious objects are under that, along with  ritual objects, sacred objects, etc, Also funerary objects but this was considered too important a group to be buried under here.
Commemorative Objects = AAT commemoratives, under object genres by function, under Object Genres.
Mortuary Objects = AAT funerary objects, under ceremonial objects,under object genres by function, however "funerary" is a completely inappropriate term. Archaeologists and Anthropologists often use "Mortuary" - something involving death.
Archaeological Objects = archaeological objects, under object genres by location, context or origin, where the definition is deeply offensive and actually wrong, but this is where it it is placed in the AAT hierarchy. The simple fact is that this is important to the majority of the Art & Cuture collections in this museum.
Models = AAT models (representations), under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Two-dimensional Visual Works = AAT paintings (visual works), prints (visual works) & drawings (visual works), and photographs, under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Three-dimensional Visual Works = AAT sculpture (visual works) , under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Textiles = AAT textiles (visual works), under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet
Currency & Exchange Objects =AAT exchange media, under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet, which is not entirely acceptable and so we have modified the name.
Information Objects = AAT information artifacts, under Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) under the Objects Facet

Robert Mason
Royal Ontario Museum


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