Dear all,
I did intend to digest the discussion lists more frequently and will endeavour to do so more in future. In the meantime, here is a very long summary of some of the March messages that might be of interest to Arlis/UK & Ireland members.
The usual *** apologies for cross-posting***.
Best wishes,
Erica Foden-Lenahan
Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:18:07 -0500
[ARLIS-L] Rhizome Metadata Project Launch Top of Form
Dear ARLIS,
Folksonomy and metadata projects have come up again and again as topics on the ARLIS listserv. For those of you interested in this discussion, I am excited to announce the introduction of folksonomy into Rhizome’s digital art archive, the ArtBase.
In the past, all the works within the ArtBase were organized by a controlled vocabulary produced when the archive was
founded. Last month, we introduced a hybrid model of controlled vocabulary and folksonomy to categorize the works. When artists submit works to the ArtBase, they choose from our vocabulary and add their terms. As artist-generated terms gain momentum and popularity, we will add them to the Rhizome Vocabulary. We have yet to determine the exact process for adding these terms, as we'd like to see how the new two-tiered system plays out.
There is now a tag cloud of the ArtBase which presents the most active terms across these two fields. Please take a look:
http://rhizome.org/art/
To read more about the vocabulary used in Rhizome’s metadata, please visit:
http://rhizome.org/art/rhizome_vocabulary.php
We are planning a future metadata upgrade to the Textbase as well.
For those of you unfamiliar with the organization, Rhizome is a non profit organization which supports the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that engages technology in significant ways. Rhizome’s programs include an annual cycle of commissions, online publications and discussion, education, exhibitions and preservation. Our website also serves as a rich resources for all those interested in the field with two comprehensive archives, one of digital art, the other of new media art-related writing, and calendar, jobs and opportunities listings. Rhizome is a membership organization and we offer individual and organizational memberships with a full range of web-based services.
Best,
Ceci Moss
Sales Associate, Rhizome
T:
212-219-1222 ext. 211
F: 212-431-5328
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| Date: | Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:56:29 -0400 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] "Digital Imaging, Reimagined" |
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Richared Baraniuk and Kevin Kelly, electrical and computer engineering professors at Rice University, have created a digital camera with a single image sensor
recording high-resolution images without the necessary compression...
Arezoo
| Date: | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:50:17 -0500 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] Special Libraries Association Conference in Denver |
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Hello ARLIS-L colleagues,
As the Liaison to SLA , I thought I would tell you that their annual conference looks very exciting this year. The meeting will be held in Denver , CO from June 3-6, 2007.
The two
keynote speakers are Al Gore and Scott Adams!
SLA is focused on Professional Development issues and offers a large number of pre-conference workshops.
The Museum, Arts and Humanities section offers business:
Sessions on, “Managing an Organization’s Cultural Assets” and “Digital Preservation for the Nation.”
And a bit of fun:
Luncheon with Theresa M Szczurek author of PURSUIT OF PASSIONATE PURPOSE; and a Monday night reception and one-woman revue by JoAn Segal “One Old Broad Looks at Life and Death”
For details on the entire conference please visit the website:
Marianne
| Date: | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:06:51
-0400 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] News Release from Metropolitan Museum of Art and ARTstor: Images for Academic Publishing |
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Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor Announce Pioneering Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge
In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will distribute, free of charge, high-resolution digital images from an expanding array of works in its renowned collection for use in academic publications. This new service, which is effective immediately, is available through ARTstor, a non-profit organization that makes art images available for educational use.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art has long sought to address the significant challenges that scholars confront in seeking to secure and license images of objects from the Museum's collections," stated Metropolitan Museum Director Philippe de Montebello in making the announcement. "We hope, through this collaboration, to play a pioneering role in addressing one of the profound challenges facing scholars in art history, and scholarly publishing, today."
ARTstor's Executive Director, James Shulman , added: "By taking such a bold step in supporting publications based on art-historical research, the Metropolitan is providing
enormous leadership to the entire sector. Scholars – in higher education and in museums – have been struggling with the question of how digitization might help to enable, rather than hinder, scholarly communications. For all involved, it is obvious that, when faced with an important directional challenge, the Metropolitan is providing decisive leadership."
Initially approached by the Metropolitan Museum in 2005 to develop this initiative, ARTstor has worked in close consultation with Metropolitan Museum staff to create its new service, entitled "Images for Academic Publishing" (IAP), which will make images available via software on the ARTstor Web site (www.artstor.org). Initially, nearly 1,700 images representative of the broad range of the Metropolitan Museum 's encyclopedic collection will be available through the more than 730 institutions that currently license ARTstor. Efforts to expand this accessibility are now underway and will be announced by ARTstor at a later date. For more information about ARTstor's plans for its "Images for Academic Publishing" service, please send email to [log in to unmask]" target=_blank>[log in to unmask]
ARTstor, a digital image library, was created in 2001 as a non-profit initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is now an independent non-profit organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and humanities. The more than 730 non-profit institutions currently participating in ARTstor are located in North America, Australia , and the United Kingdom .
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – founded in 1870 with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture from every part of the globe, and to educate the public about art – is the most comprehensive art museum in the Western Hemisphere with a collection now including more than two million works of art.
March 13, 2007
Nancy Allen
Director of Museum Relations
ARTstor
151 E. 61st Street
New York, NY 10021
212 500-2422
| Date: | Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:21:24
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin released in JSTOR |
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The PMA Bulletin is now available in JSTOR:
Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Previous Title: The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin (0899-059x)
Previous Title: Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum (0891-3609)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 91, 1903-1998
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISSN: 0031-7314
*No issues published from 1999-2001. Vol. 92, No. 388 published in 2002.
C. Danial Elliott
Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives
Philadelphia Museum of Art
P.O. Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101-7646
215-684-7651
| Date: | Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:42:29 -0400 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] Subject headings of interest to art librarians |
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This month I tried something new and sorted out some of the changes
made due to cancellations. Let me know if this seems helpful and is worth continuing.
Angela
LC Subject Headings of interest to art librarians from February 2007
weekly lists
Topical headings:
150 Art and social action [May Subd Geog]
150 Art, Chinese--Japanese influences
150 Art fairs [May Subd Geog]
150 Bazooka (Group of artists)
150 Caryatids in art [Not Subd Geog]
110 Castello di Tabiano (Tabiano Castello, Italy)
150 Chitimacha baskets [May Subd Geog]
150 Feather pictures [May Subd Geog]
150 Federated searching [May Subd Geog]
150 Figure
sculpture, Bangladeshi [May Subd Geog]
150 Heket (Egyptian deity) [Not Subd Geog]
150 Illumination of books and manuscripts, Scandinavian
150 Indian potters [May Subd Geog]
150 Indian women wood-carvers [May Subd Geog]
150 Industrial museums--Collection management [May Subd Geog]
150 Intelligent buildings [May Subd Geog]
150 Kairos (Greek deity) [Not Subd Geog]
150 Libraries in art [Not Subd Geog]
150 Mbya art [May Subd Geog]
150 Middle
Ages--Sources
150 Motion pictures in art [Not Subd Geog]
150 Navajo arts [May Subd Geog]
150 Occasio (Roman deity) [Not Subd Geog]
100 Pallava dynasty, 4th-9th centuries [Not Subd Geog]
150
Parsee art [May Subd Geog]
150 Photobooks [May Subd Geog]
150 Photograph albums [May Subd Geog]
150 Small gardens [May Subd Geog]
150 Small museums [May Subd Geog]
150 Smart
materials in architecture [May Subd Geog]
150 Smart materials in design [May Subd Geog]
150 Terra cotta plaques [May Subd Geog]
150 Tomb of Perneb (Saqqarah, Egypt)
150 Urban gardens [May Subd Geog]
150 Wallace Memorial Stone (London, England)
150 Walters Prize
150 Web portals [May Subd Geog]
150 Wooden-frame buildings [May Subd Geog]
150 Yarn in art [Not Subd Geog]
Buildings, structures, sites, etc.:
110 Birkhall (Scotland)
110 Bramall Hall (England)
110 Burg Ziesar (Ziesar, Germany)
110 Chateau d'Abbadia (Hendaye, France)
110 Clarence House (London, England)
150 Cortile del Pappagallo (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
151 Font-de-Gaume Cave (France)
110 Furstenhof (Wismar, Germany)
151 Iran--Civilization--Mediterranean influences
110 Kunsthalle Portikus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
151 Kuykendall Site (Ariz.)
151 Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site (New York, N.Y.)
151 Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Iranian influences
110 Nero's Villa (Subiaco, Italy)
151 Page-Ladson Site (Fla.)
110 Palacio Salvo (Montevideo, Uruguay)
110 Palazzo dei lavori pubblici (Turin, Italy)
110 Saffa-Haus (Switzerland)
151 Saints-Come-et-Damien Site (Montpellier, France)
151 San Jose de Moro Site (Peru)
110 Schloss Hof (Austria)
151 Souvannakhomkham (Extinct city)
151 Tara Site (Ireland)
110 Temple of Isis (Pompeii)
151 University Indian Ruin (Ariz.)
110 Veste Rosenberg (Kronach, Germany)
110 Villa Mooser-Nef (Zurich, Switzerland)
110 Villa Strozzi (Florence, Italy)
Changes due to cancellations
150 Crusades
* 550 BT Middle Ages--History CANCEL
* 550 BT Middle Ages
151 Europe--History--392-814
* 550 BT Middle Ages--History CANCEL
* 550 BT Middle Ages
150 Feudalism [May Subd Geog]
* 053 D131 CANCEL
* 053 D131
(History)
* 550 BT Middle Ages--History CANCEL
150 Geography, Medieval--Maps
* 450 UF Middle Ages--History--Maps CANCEL
* 450 UF Middle Ages--Maps
150 Knights and knighthood [May Subd Geog]
*
550 BT Civilization, Medieval
* 550 BT Middle Ages--History CANCEL
150 Middle Ages--History CANCEL
* 682 This authority record has been deleted because the heading is covered by the subject heading Middle Ages
Angela Sidman
Catalogue Librarian
Mina Rees Library
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
212-817-7072
| Date: | Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:08:11 -0400 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] Race and Visual Culture guide |
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Hello All.
Thanks to everyone who forwarded some select websites to visual and
primary resources that might support the study of race and visual
culture in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I've posted
my guide on the Colby Libraries webpages
If you have trouble accessing let me know. There is so much out there
it is a bit overwhelming.
Have a great day. Margaret Ericson, Art and Music Librarian, Colby
College
| Date: | Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:55:02 -0500 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] Academic Library Division's New Listserv |
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The Academic Library Division announces a new listserv, ARLIS-ALD, for the discussion
of issues related to art librarianship and information services within college and university settings, including (but not limited to) teaching, scholarship, tenure, collections, and outreach.
Our first discussion is brainstorming topics for the ALD section meeting in Atlanta . Please join in with your suggestions, start a new topic, or ask (and answer) questions—help make the conversations interesting and useful!
Lucie Stylianopoulos ( University of Virgina ) – Academic Library Division, moderator
Greg Hatch ( University of Utah ) – Academic Library Division, list administrator
Rijn Templeton ( University of Iowa – Academic Library Division, vice-moderator
| Date: | Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:15:47 -0500 |
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| Subject: | [ARLIS-L] JAB is in print again |
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dear colleagues,
just to let you know that JAB, the Journal of Artists' Books Brad Freeman, currently the studio coordinator at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts, has just published Issue No. 21 of the magazine that he started back in 1994.
For subscription information go to
AnneDorothee Boehme
Special Collections in the John M Flaxman Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 South Wabash Ave, 5th Floor
Chicago Il 60603 - 3103
[log in to unmask] / ph: 312.899.5098 / fax: 312.899.1851
The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection - a collection of experimental art forms from the 1960s to the present
www.saic.edu/degrees_resources/libraries/flaxman/index.html#special_collection/SLC_5537
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:55:24 -0400
From: "Lynda S. White" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [ARLIS-L] ARLIS/NA Restructuring Proposals
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With only a month before the conference, there is not much time left to discuss the ARLIS restructuring proposals. It will not be possible to cover all aspects of the recommendations in the short time available at the membership meeting in Atlanta. The Assessment Task Force feels strongly that the membership should have as much input as possible into this process.
The report is available at:
http://www.arlisna.org/arlismembers/assessment/recommendations.pdf
To pique your interest, we are proposing that all DSRTs and discussion groups be disbanded and reconstituted as more informal Interest Groups if the members want to continue. We are also proposing that the Board be reconfigured. These changes will require a vote of the membership.
Please take a look at the report before commenting! You can find recommendations and justifications in these parts of the report:
DSRTs p. 4-8
Board Structure p. 8-10
Committees, p. 10-11
Liaisons, p. 11-12
User groups, p. 12
Let us know what your thoughts are on the blog. You can get to the blog, using your ARLIS/NA logon, at:
http://arlisna.org/arlismembers/blogs/
or through the members' only area of the website. You can add comments by clicking on "What are your thoughts?" If you want to start a new thread/topic/post, you will have to register first. You can register very quickly and easily by clicking on "Register" under "Meta."
We need your feedback!
Sarah Falls
Kathleen List
Mark Pompelia
Rebecca Price
Lynda White, Chair
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please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2007 at
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