This paper gives an overview of the history, development, and structure of the electronic thesauri produced and maintained by the Getty Research Institute (GRI). We describe the evolution of the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAI®), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN®), and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN®) as multilingual, cross-cultural knowledge organization systems (KOS); the factors that make them unique; and their potential, when expressed as Linked Open Data (LOD) to play a key role in the Semantic Web.
S. Vahdati, N. Arndt, S. Auer, and C. Lange. Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'2016), 10024, Heidelberg, Springer Verlag, (November 2016)