Terminology of art conservation and restoration in contemporary croatian lexicography

Abstract

The historical and aesthetic values of dialectically related cultural heritage and language, expressed and transmitted from generation to generation, impose on us the duty to guard them and transmit them to the future generations. In order to further understand the problems in the field of heritage conservation and restoration, and allow the disclosure of their historical course, as well as the problems of management of cultural heritage, it is necessary, among other things, to initiate a research of its terminology. Given the fact that the terminology in the field of conservation and restoration in contemporary Croatian lexicography is not standardized, nor systematically recorded, using texts from archival and contemporary conservation and restoration documentation in the Croatian language, a survey was conducted to determine the presence of the  terminology of art conservation and restoration in selected contemporary editions of Croatian central lexicography, as well as the expertise and the relevance of the definitions within the profession, and finally the cultural assessment of the choice of entries. The survey could be useful for the development of conservation and restoration terminology databases for the Croatian language.