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
Sample online AAT records having Chinese equivalents:
Wu (painting style)
http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=work&english=N&prev_page=60&subjectid=300111817
commercial art
http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=photography&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300056475
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
modern cursive script
http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=AND¬e=chinese&english=N&prev_page=6&subjectid=300343582