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Artists’ names – dates – standards and the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon project1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Eberhard Kasten
Eberhard Kasten*
Affiliation:
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Luppenstrasse 1b, 04177 Leipzig, Germany
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Email: kasten@akl.uni-leipzig.de
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Extract

Successor to Thieme-Becker and Vollmer, those great standard reference works for art history, the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon is an even more ambitious undertaking which will eventually include entries for between 450,000 and 500,000 artists. The data will be published in a number of ways: in book format (including a couple of spin-off versions in hard copy), CD-ROM and, increasingly, online. This article describes the developments one AKL editor has witnessed in the production process for the projected 80 volumes of the complete work, and outlines its role as an authority for artists’ names.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 2001 , pp. 28 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2001

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Footnotes

1.

Translation of a paper given 25 May 1999 at the 89th German Librarians Conference at Freiburg im Breisgau. For a review of the 9th edition of the CD-ROM version of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, see p.??-?? of this issue of the Art Libraries Journal.

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