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Colleagues, The Getty Vocabulary Program is pleased to announce that around 3,150 AAT records having one or more Chinese-language equivalent terms, plus descriptive notes and bibliographic citations in Chinese, are now published online. The ongoing full translation of the ca. 35,000 AAT records into Chinese is being undertaken by the Taiwan E-Learning & Digital Archives Program (Academia Sinica; Nankang, Taiwan), in close consultation with the GRI AAT editors. Due to the challenges of differing traditions and cultures, scripts and writing methods, technical challenges, logistics, and other issues, this first set of translations in Chinese is a tremendous accomplishment. Thanks very much to the contributors and their translators, the Vocabulary editors, and as always to our ITS colleagues for their tireless, wonderful work. Below are some examples of Chinese terms in the AAT records online. The Vocabulary Program at the GRI and Joan Cobb, Gregg Garcia and others in ITS will continue to work with our Taiwanese colleagues throughout this year to incorporate more and more records having Chinese terms. Existing and evolving translations of the AAT in Spanish and Dutch have already been done by the Centro de Documentación de Bienes Patrimoniales (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos; Santiago, Chile) and the Bureau AAT, RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History; The Hague, The Netherlands). Partial translations in Italian and French are completed; translations in German and perhaps in other languages are anticipated. To learn more about the AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus), or the other three Getty vocabularies (Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)), please follow the links on this page: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html [Please feel free forward this announcement.] Sincerely, Patricia Patricia Harpring, PhD Managing Editor, Getty Vocabulary Program [log in to unmask] Sample online AAT records having Chinese equivalents: artists http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=chinese+OR+artist&logic=AND¬e=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300025103 etchers http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=print&english=N&prev_page=5&subjectid=300025174 Wu (painting style) http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=work&english=N&prev_page=60&subjectid=300111817 Abbasid http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=style&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300021521 commercial art http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=photography&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300056475 emulsion http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=photography&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300015003 aventurine (quartz) http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=aventurine&logic=AND¬e=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300011154 aluminum paint http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=paint&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300015031 visual literacy http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=work&english=N&prev_page=58&subjectid=300250371 amateurism http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=work&english=N&prev_page=2&subjectid=300055770 modern cursive script http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=chinese&english=N&prev_page=6&subjectid=300343582 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~