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WP3 - 4 MINERVA Meeting Terminologies & multilingual access to heritage

October 3rd 2003 Paris

French-Italian terminology for online built heritageErminia Sciacchitano

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Project completed: The multilingual thesaurus on religious objects

Project on-going: the Italian translation of the Thésaurus de l'architecture

Possible future cooperation: multilingual thesaurus on architecture and multilingual thesaurus on painting

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Thesaurus des objects religieuxThesaurus of religious objects

Thesaurus del corredo ecclesiastico

Based on existing vocabularies

• Objects religieux, méthode d’analyse et vocabulaire - English/French Vocabulary of religious objects in the form of a hierarchical list Created under a cooperation agreement between France and Canada (1994).

•Thesaurus de la base Palissy – Ministère de la Culture et la Communication / Inventaire général

•Art & Architecture Thesaurus - Getty Trust

•Suppellettile ecclesiastica – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali / Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (1989)

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The Agreement

•Ministère de la Culture et la Communication / Direction del l’Architecture et du Patrimoine; •Ministère du Patrimoine Canadien - Canadian Heritage;•Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali / Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione;•Getty Information Institute.

The Partner’s obligations to publish the results:•France: on book, •Italy: on CD-Rom, •Canada: on online resource•Getty Information institute: integrated in AAT

The project started on 1994 and ended on 1999

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•The structure follows the guidelines described in standard ISO 5964 –1985 for multilingual thesauri•Main objective: to find always a corresponding term in each language

Difficulties: •4 partners 3 languages (with nuances between Canadian English and American English)•Geographical distance

The Cd-Rom contains: •4000 terms•2500 images, chosen between Canadian, French and Italian collections

•A new version with Portuguese language, made in co-operation with the Portuguese Catholic University is ready to be published (CD-Rom and monolingual book)

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Alphabetical Index

Terms are arranged in alphabetical order, with cross-references from all synonyms and related terms

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Hierarchical Structure

Terms are arranged hierarchically to make relationships among concepts explicits

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Parallel Thesauri

Terms are arranged in hierarchical order, making explicit the relationships between terms in Italian, French and English

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Photographic Archive

Terms are arranged in alphabetical order in Italian, French and English with their scope notes and accompanying images

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Translated categories

urbanismearchitecture religieusearchitecture funéraire, commémorative et votivearchitecture de l'administration ou de la vie publiquearchitecture judiciaire, pénitentiaire ou de policearchitecture fiscale ou financièrearchitecture hospitalière, d'assistance ou de protection socialearchitecture scolairearchitecture de culture, recherche, sport ou loisirarchitecture militairearchitecture domestiquearchitecture agricolearchitecture commercialearchitecture artisanalearchitecture industriellegénie civilarchitecture de jardindescripteurs communs à toutes les oeuvres

The Italian version of the Thésaurus de l'architecture

•First version 1997-98•Revised version 2002

based on the French thesaurus online http://www.culture.fr/documentation/thesarch/pres.htm)

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Today:Translation of terms andDefinitions

Terms: adoption of the same symbology Equivalence+/- Approx equivalence& Multiple equivalence No equivalence

Definitions Use of small characters to underline differences of meaning

Possible future co-operation:Multilingual thesaurus on architectural terms