Lina Nagel

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The Spanish-Language Version of the AAT Tesauro
de Arte Arquitectura History, Implementation,
and Dissemination

• Lina Nagel
• Centro de Documentacion de Bienes Patrimoniales
• lnagel_at_cdbp.cl

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• CDBP Projects
• 1995 Overall Program for DIBAM Museums
• Development of Documentation System - SUR
• Evaluation of International Tools
• Standardizing our vocabulary Art Architecture
  Thesaurus equivalency work
• From MS Word ? MS Access ? SQL ? current version,
  T-SQL y XMLEditPro
• Project Phases
• 1996 machine translation (disaster)
• 1996 1999 Basic translation with dictionaries
  and glossaries
• 2000 2003 and 2005 2008 special projects

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DIBAM Chile Our experience

• As a result, in September 2008
• Translated gt 31.000 English descriptors
• Added gt 700 specialized sources in Spanish,
  documenting gt 31.000 Spanish terms
• Online since 2003
• www.aatespanol.cl the first online
• thesaurus in Spanish

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• Audience
• The Tesauro de Arte Arquitectura TAA,
  (www.aatespanol.cl) is consulted by
• - Professionals from Chilean museums,
• Professionals from different countries on the
  American continent,
• Specialists from English-speaking countries,
• and by publishers, documentation and
  investigation centers that work in topics related
  to Western Art and Architecture. Also American
  and Pre-Columbian art.

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For a painting
cuadro
cuadro?
lienzo?
pintura?
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For a scultpure
escultura ? estatua ? tallado ? imagen?
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For a container
JARROZAPATO ? JARRO ZAPATO ? JARRO - ZAPATO
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For a percussion instrument
kultrun kultrung cultrún
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For a delicious mapuche dressing ?
MERQUÉN MERKEN
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• Research new terms to suggest in the AAT
• Art Achitecture Thesaurus, also in the Spanish
  version, lacks some widely-used terms
  corresponding to
• Pre-Columbian objects,
• Colonial American objects or activities,
• Religious objects
• Often, this lack of terminology prevents the use
  of the TAA or doesnt allow the community to
  make full use of it.

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Singular vs. Plural Use of the singular for
terms in the TAA English
Spanish pastels
pastel martyria
martyrium tippets
mantón - Plural is used as alternative terms,
links with the AAT Spanish plurals are formed by
adding s to nouns. Some exceptions in which
terms ending in s are both singular and plural,
e.g. pisapapeles (paperweights)
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• Searching Terms
• Ability to retrieve records by searching on
  either Spanish-language, English-language, or
  some original-language
•  English/original language Spanish
  /original language
• dolls muñeca
• Queen Anne Style Estilo Reina Ana
• dotted manners criblé técnica del cribado
• kakemono-e kakemono
• tableaux (sculpture) tableau-objects (escultura)

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Prefixes, Suffixes, and Compound Terms The TAA
has the ability to retrieve records by searching
independent particles such as prefixes and
suffixes, or by searching compound terms.
Prefixes / Suffixes
pre Prerrafaelita cillo cordoncillo   Com
pound Terms pisapales
pisa pisapapeles papeles pisapapeles
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New candidate terms proposed for the
AAT Religious and Liturgical Objects
Pyx-chrismatory of the sick Crismera Host
press sick Prensa para Hostia
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Hispanic-American Terms   Sarga 1. Wall
Painting in Spain and Latin America 2. Material

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Maguey (agave)Se usaba como material para la
armazón de las figuras, las cuales se modelaban
luego con yeso y finalmente se policromaban. En
el período virreinal fueron hechas muchas
imágenes religiosas utilizando este material como
soporte.
San Antonio de Padua Iglesia Barraza
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Barroco 1. Barroco Americano 2. Barroco
Popular 3. Barroco Indígena 4. Barroco Mestizo
5. Alto Barroco Nacional o Mestizo, 1680 - 1740
 
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Pre-Columbian Terms Aribalo There is also a
lack of terms for pre-Columbian archeological
objects, ceremonies, events, and materials that
are frequently used in research and for
cataloguing museum collections. 1. Ariballoi
(Greek Vase) 2. Aribalo (pre-Columbian Vase)  
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Alternative Terms   Different usage in various
Spanish-speaking countries 1. brown (color)
café (uso en Chile) carmelita (uso en
Cuba) marrón (uso en Spain, Argentina,
etc.) pardo (other countries) Baldoquin (form
used in Latin America) for baldachins (English)
or baldaquino (Spanish) Historic forms 2.
Arquilla (historic term) for vargueño or bargueño
(contemporary Spanish)
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• For a successful translation and equivalencies
• Use of appropriate bibliography, e.g.
• - Fleming y Honour, Diccionario de Artes
  Decorativas
• - Lucien-Smith, Diccionario de Términos
  Artísticos
• Miller, Enciclopedia de Antigüedades

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2. Use of protocoles When so many people work in
the translation and equivalences search, is very
important to have protocoles 3. Work with
qualified researchers (art historians) - For much
equivalency work, fluency in English is much less
important than subject expertise and engagement.
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LA BUSQUEDA
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Algunas vistas del TAA
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Projections 2008 and abroad

• the work of maintaining online standardization
  instruments never stops new terms have to be
  entered
• old ones revised
• new designs need to be made
• new links posted and then there are the constant
  changes suggested by our users
• Terms with photos Images

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THANKS!