A terminological knowledge database for the fine arts

Abstract

This article presents the conceptual development of a database of fine arts terminology that will gather uses of national Mexican Spanish. This database will provide certainty of the use of the vocabulary of specialists in the domain, allow for the identification of the common and differentiated terminologies used by Mexican specialists, support the descriptive and data normalization practices that originate in the cultural sector of Mexico, and favor the normalization of databases present in Mexican museums, archives, libraries and galleries. Lastly, it is worth mentioning that for the conceptual design of the database, principles related to linguistics, its applied sub-disciplines, and information sciences have been taken into account; this initiative is expected to be a first documentary basis which acts as terminological control and that, in the future, it will become a national thesaurus for the domain.