2018 Volume 25 Pages 18-36
Open Access Databases in the painting field are increasing significantly. The authorities of "Japanese Art Thesaurus Database: Paintings" were only bibliographies. We will switch to digital authorities this time. We surveyed the digital authorities as of September 2017 and analyzed the present situation. We describe some methods to make various forms of digital authorities compatible with LOD. This description is limited to Microsoft Windows users. This paper aims to a digital reference tool in the field of Art Documentation.