Appendix 5: International Terminology Projects in Association with the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, 1993-1997

Multilingual

• American-English, British-English, and French

  Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
  Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME)
  Inventaire général des Monuments et des Richesses de la France (Inventaire général)
  Building Type terms - completed
  (Inventaire général has French-English thesaurus in production)
  

• American English, French, and Italian

  Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)/Réseau Canadien d'Information sur le Patrimoine (RCIP)
  Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France,
  (under the aegis of the Caisse nationale des monuments historiques)
  Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD)

LEXICON OF FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS, OBJECTS, LINENS, AND VESTMENTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- 8 residencies held, 1994-97
(Group has formal agreement approved by all organizations to produce a multilingual lexicon in print, on CD-ROM, and on the Internet; the lexicon is slated for release in 1997)

French

• Université Laval, Canada
  Information Forms and Visual Works terms - work in progress
  Répertoire des Vedettes-Matières subject headings - match with AAT 1995
  (CHIN interested in housing results)

• Datenbank Schweizerisches Kulturguter (DSK)
  Visual Works terms - completed; residency required to evaluate work
  (CHIN interested in housing results)
  

Italian

• Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD)
  Materials terms - completed a portion of equivalents to terms in AAT first edition;
  (AAT has supplied list of terms added and new structure for second edition; Inventaire général and/or additional Italian organizations may be interested in joining this project)

Spanish

• Escuela Técnica de Arquitectura, Madrid
  Architecture terms - training held at AAT in 1993
  (Agreement between AAT and the university; Spanish government funding received; team working on terms)

Dutch

• Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) and Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg
  All of AAT - RKD initiated translation project 1995; as of September 1996, first phase of the project was completed
  (To be disseminated in the Netherlands for Dutch museums, universities, and libraries)

Portuguese

• Gulbenkian Foundation
  Paintings terms - meeting with AAT staff September 1994
  (Support being sought to assemble working group from Portuguese-speaking world including Africa, Latin America)
  

British-English

• Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)
  Costume terms - completed (Published in AAT second edition, 1994)

• Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library (NAL)
  Information Forms terms - residency 1994
  (Published in AAT update, 1995)
  NAL subject headings - meeting held 1994
  (Match with AAT accomplished; under evaluation)
  

• National Museums of Scotland, Parks Canada, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  Military Uniform terms - residency held 1994
  (Published in AAT update 1995 as part of Costume hierarchy)
  

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