Recommended Form/Genre Terms in EAD Markup

Note: List indicates whether terms are found in the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), and indicates cases in which related terms are preferred.

• account book(s) AAT
• annual report(s) AAT
• artifact(s) AAT
• audiotape(s) AAT
• autobiographies (or autobiography) AAT
• autographs AAT
• bibliographies (or bibliography) AAT
• broadside(s) AAT
• CD-ROMs AAT
• chart(s) AAT
• clippings AAT
• commonplace book(s) AAT
• contract(s) AAT
• correspondence AAT
• daguerreotype(s) AAT
• deed(s) AAT
• diary(ies) AAT
• diploma(s) AAT
• directories (directory) AAT
• drawings AAT
• field notes AAT
• financial record(s) AAT
• flier(s) AAT
• flyers. Use flier(s).
• galley proof(s) AAT
• genealogies (genealogy) AAT
• glass photonegatives. Not in AAT. Use glass + negatives.
• illustration(s) AAT
• interview(s) AAT
• journals (notebooks) . Not in AAT. Alternatives: journal(s) (accounts); journal(s) (periodical(s)); diary (diaries)
• lantern slide(s) AAT
• lecture note(s) AAT
• lecture(s) AAT
• legal document(s) AAT
• legal papers. Use legal documents.
• letterpress copybook(s) AAT
• letters . Not in AAT. Use letter(s) (correspondence).
• magnetic disk(s) AAT
• manuscripts AAT
• maps AAT
• medical record(s) AAT
• minutes AAT
• motion picture(s) AAT
• negative(s) AAT
• newsletter(s) AAT
• notebook(s) AAT
• obituaries (obituary) AAT
• painting(s) AAT
• pamphlet(s) AAT
• phonograph record(s) AAT
• photograph(s) AAT
• photoprints Not in AAT. Use photographic print(s).
• play(s) AAT
• poem(s) AAT. See also poetry.
• portrait(s) AAT
• postcard(s) AAT
• posters AAT
• program(s) AAT
• proof(s) AAT
• report(s) AAT
• resume(s) AAT
• score(s) AAT
• scrapbook(s) AAT
• sermon(s) AAT
• sketch(es) AAT
• sketchbook(s) AAT
• slides Not in AAT. Use slide(s) (photograph(s)).
• sound recording(s) AAT
• syllabi (syllabus) AAT
• tintype(s) AAT
• videodisc (s) ATT
• videotape(s) AAT
• will(s) AAT