Abstract
Last mummer, I surveyed art documentation activities of two major museums in Korea, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the National Museum of Korea. In the art library of the former Museum, librarians worked actively with pride of a professional. On the other hand, the database manager of the latter Museum developed the national data standard for cultural properties and was actively imputing their data.
Japanese art documentation activities are poor compared with these Korean activities. Japanese museums of art (and of cultural properties) have few professional art librarians and we have no national data standard for cultural properties. The Japan Art Documentation Society should do something to change such a situation.
