Constructing Web-based Art Thesaurus, Focusing Around Data Conversion

Abstract

From 1991 to 1994, "Japanese Fine Arts Thesaurus Database Project in the University of Tsukuba" created the "Database of Japan Arts Thesaurus: Paintings (JART-P)" under the auspice of Grant-in-Aid Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology We opened it in the Search System "UTOPIA: University of Tsukuba Online Processing of Information" from 1994 to 2005 and then converted the database to Internet format using the VBA and Macro of Microsoft-Excel from March 2005 because Information Retrieval Service on Internet became a recent trend and also UTOPIA service stopped in August. In this paper we discuss a database conversion method, maintenance of an organization.