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CURATOR [4 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2023-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
CONT

A curator ... is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library, or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
DEF

Personne qui guide l'orientation [d'une] collection, dirige le programme des acquisitions et des expositions et assure l'entreposage adéquat des collections.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Museos y patrimonio (Generalidades)
DEF

Profesional cualificado técnica y creativamente que ejerce la labor de responsable de una exposición u otro tipo de actividades y eventos artísticos.

OBS

La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que "comisario" y "conservador" son términos válidos. En la prensa española suele emplearse la palabra "comisario" mientras que en América se prefiere el término "curador".

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Record 3 2013-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

conservator; curator: Conservator is often used in the sense "a court-appointed guardian of an incompetent" ... Primarily a civil-law term, ... curator has an identical meaning; this term has been adopted in a number of common-law jurisdictions, however, as in several American states.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad (common law)
DEF

curador: Quien cuida de algo.

Key term(s)
  • curador del mayor
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Record 4 2012-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (civil law)
CONT

The court institutes a curatorship to a person of full age if it is established that the incapacity of that person to care for himself and to administer his property is total and permanent and that he requires to be represented in the exercise of his civil rights. The court then appoints a curator.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (droit civil)
CONT

Le tribunal ouvre une curatelle s'il est établi que l'inaptitude du majeur à prendre soin de lui-même et à administrer ses biens est totale et permanente, et qu'il a besoin d'être représenté dans l'exercice de ses droits civils. Il nomme alors un curateur.

Spanish

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