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Enhancing Educational Access to Art
Catherine Zinser
Blanton Museum of Art
The University of Texas at Austin
Jessica Higgins, Unmil P. Karadkar, Karen Pavelka
School of Information
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Blanton Museum
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
… enriches and transforms the lives of learners of all ages by providing inspiring and relevant experiences with original works of art …
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Prints and Drawings
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Nationally recognized
• ~13,000• Wide use on campus
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Collection Management
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Extensive metadata• Inconsistencies
introduced over time• Created by museum
professionals • Proprietary schema• For museum staff and
patrons• Available within the
museum
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Web Interface
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• EmbARK Web kiosk• Improves availability• Limited search
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Problems
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Low visibility• Access through history or social memory• Burden on Blanton staff• Disassociated description
– Museum professionals– Instructional goals
• Underutilization of collection
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Approach
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Interview instructors to identify needs and challenges
• Use a standards-based, open-source infrastructure– Schema– Software
• Improve user access– Software– Relevance of metadata content
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Instructor Interviews - Design
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Excellent record-keeping– Instructors, courses, prints
• Four instructors• Different disciplines
– Studio art– French– Architecture
• Use the collection regularly• Semi-structured interviews
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Interview Topics
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Courses• Topics covered• Significance of the collection in context of
the topic• Selection of prints• Desired criteria for selection• Other sources used• Description of sample prints
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Instructor Responses
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Courses
– Roman Paris• Topics covered
– Artists in Cities– Printmaking as a form of protest
• Collection significance in context
– Connection to history– Dialog with curators
• Selection of prints
– Ask a curator– Past exhibits– Prints used in prior courses
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Instructor Responses
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Desired criteria for selection
– Content (columns, Christ, prison)– Time period– Style period (Mannerist, Early Renaissance, Baroque)– Materials– State– Artist
• Other sources used
– NGA, MoMA, Google Images, ArtStor
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Description of Sample Prints
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Description– historical layering, sculpture, rondelles, tondos,
tension between landscape & architecture in Rome
• Tags– ruin, antique, pastoral, forum, columns,
Corinthian fluted columns• Tag categories
– sculptural elements, architectural elements
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Description of Sample Prints
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Description– line quality, unique approach to printing,
"painting with the ink", drama, narrative, light, effortlessness
• Tags– figurative work, multi-figurative, Christ, religious,
narrative, narration, action, activity, light, representational, drama
• Tag categories– genres of art; symbols; geography
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Search for a Descriptive Schema
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Dublin Core– Open standard– Wide support– Too generic
• Custom Schema– Perfect fit– Lack of interoperability (silo)
• CDWA– Open standard (Getty)– Designed for artworks– Balance between flexibility and interoperability
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Infrastructure
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• DSpace, FEDORA– Wide adoption– Bare bones presentation– Sharp learning curve
• CollectiveAccess– Easy installation– Decent look-and-feel– Script-based customization– Built-in support for social media
Prototype
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CollectiveAccess
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
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Artwork Detail
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
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Next Steps
TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
• Feedback from Blanton Staff and instructors• Populate the collection to serve one course• Enable instructors to add metadata
– Not just tags• Investigate social metadata issues
– Authority of museum curators– Value addition in education
• Iterate and reiterate…• Multi-use, multi-audience artwork repository
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TCDL 2012 – 5/24/2012
Jessica Higgins [email protected]
Unmil P. Karadkar [email protected]
Karen Pavelka [email protected]
Catherine Zinser [email protected]
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