That's actually exceptionally reasonable for a 5-year license. They've charged quite a bit more to commercial developers that wanted to include the vocabularies in their systems for resale. I can think of other services that charge nonprofits $1,000/year for use of authorities.
The vocabularies are copyrighted and not freeware. They're not simple compilations, and I can say this as someone who contributed work to the AAT efforts in the late 80s and early 90s.
Leslie
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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: Webinar: Introducing Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)
They wanted at least $1000 for the geographic terms. Doesn't sound very reasonable to me, to be honest, especially since I was considering developing an application based on their own CDWA schema.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Cory Rockliff <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Actually, their licensing terms for non-profits are very reasonable.
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> On 4/19/2010 11:43 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
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>> I wonder how many thousands of dollars they will charge to use this.
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>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Mark A. Matienzo<[log in to unmask]
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>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Erin Coburn<[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:54 AM
>>>
>>> The Museum Computer Network (MCN), Gallery Systems, and the J. Paul
>>> Getty Trust are pleased to offer a free Webinar on a new vocabulary
>>> under development, the Cultural Objects Name Authority(tm) (CONA).
>>>
>>> "Introducing the Getty's new Cultural Objects Name Authority(tm) (CONA)"
>>> Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT
>>>
>>> The Cultural Objects Name Authority(tm) (CONA) is a new Getty
>>> vocabulary currently under development. It is scheduled for
>>> introduction to the contributor community in 2011. CONA will join
>>> the other three Getty vocabularies, the Art& Architecture
>>> Thesaurus(r) (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names(r) (TGN),
>>> and the Union List of Artist Names(r) (ULAN), as a tool for cataloging
>>> and retrieval of art information. CONA will contain titles, current
>>> location, and other core information for cultural works. The scope
>>> of CONA will include architecture and movable works such as
>>> paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs,
>>> ceramics, textiles, furniture, and archaeological artifacts. Murtha
>>> Baca, Head of Digital Art History Access at the Getty Research
>>> Institute, and Patricia Harpring, Managing Editor of the Getty
>>> Vocabulary Program, will present an introduction to CONA and will be available for questions.
>>>
>>> To register, please go to:
>>> https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/307938058
>>>
>>>
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