Chen, Shu JiunShu JiunChenZeng, Marcia LeiMarcia LeiZengHSUEH-HUA CHEN2019-04-092019-04-092016-03-0114325012https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/405277© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. In any effort that involves multilingual KOS, the language and cultural variants bring a great degree of complexity, especially when perspectives of different cultures need to be integrated. This paper attempts to explore, within the domain of Chinese art, the interoperability of multilingual/multi-cultural vocabularies by analyzing the issues of aligning the conceptual structures of Chinese and English terminology in the controlled vocabularies observed in our Chinese AAT-Taiwan Project (2010-present). The paper addresses the issues related to the conceptual structures of the concepts for Chinese art in the National Palace Museum (NPM) Vocabulary and Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). The paper presents four patterns found in the effort of achieving semantic interoperability and shares a set of models that have been used to handle various situations. The findings help the understanding of the semantic interoperability of multilingual KOS, especially when dealing with cultural-related concepts that cannot be exactly aligned in vocabularies due to discrepancies in the conceptual structures.Controlled vocabularies | Knowledge organization | Multilingual terminology | Semantic mapping[SDGs]SDG4journal article10.1007/s00799-015-0163-12-s2.0-84959170296WOS:000406744800003https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84959170296