Furniture Dictionary

Furniture has been an important part of man’s domestic environment throughout history. Although its role has been fundamentally functional, it has been enriched with other social and cultural meanings that make furniture an essential element of cultural heritage. This thesaurus includes terminology referring to furniture denominations, their typologies, specific formal descriptors, as well as materials and techniques of elaboration and decoration of them. More than 2,300 terms are offered in LOD for consultation, download and link. Each term is accompanied by a definition, scope notes, bibliography and link to the Digital Network of Museum Collections of Spain and, in many of the terms referenced, demonstrative images. Various functionalities are presented, such as SPARQL consultation point, alphabetical and hierarchical search of terms, as well as 639 links to other information resources (List of Headings of Matter for Public Libraries of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, List of Heads of Matter of the Library of Catalonia, the national libraries of France, Holland and Germany, the thesaurus of Getty Research Institute, Library of the American Congress, Dbpedia and Geonames).