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The Pat Meyer Foundation A Digital Archives Database Prototype LIS-661: Art Documentation, Final Project: Artist Foundation Alex DiFiglia, Drew Facklam, Cormac Fitzgerald, Richard Goldstein, Rachel Richardson, and Paige Williams Salvador Dalí's Lobster Telephone, 1938

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The Pat Meyer FoundationA Digital Archives Database Prototype

LIS-661: Art Documentation, Final Project: Artist Foundation

Alex DiFiglia, Drew Facklam, Cormac Fitzgerald, Richard Goldstein, Rachel Richardson, and Paige Williams

Salvador Dali's Lobster Telephone, 1938

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Who is Pat Meyer?

● Childhood and life in NYC● Influences and the

Neo-Dadaist Movement● Legacy

DeFeo, 1960, The Whitney Museum of American Art

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Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral, 1982. Painted wood. From the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Camera

Grandma’s Chair

Suitcase Pieces

Metal Car Parts

Wood included: Pine, Mahogany, Maple and Oak

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Current Status and Future Needs

Periodical Wall in the reading room at Letterform Archive

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Database Project Requirements

● Levels of Description● Standardized Vocabularies● Digital Images● Archival and Preservation

Best Practices● Exportable Metadata

Image from Lynda.com slideshow

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Descriptive metadata

Document

Identify

Describe

● 100 sculptures● 203 drawings● 167 linear feet of documents● 17 sketchbooks

● Object profile● Photo documentation● Searchable by tombstone data as well as linked

elements/objects● Build/implement unique object ID

● Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)● Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)● Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)● Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)

Collection size

Digital inventory at item level for a robust database

Project Overview

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Inventory● Integrate Meyer’s legacy

inventories● Unique object ID format

○ Year.ItemType.Series○ I.e. 1961.dwg.001

● Institution identifiers○ First four letters○ I.e. Guggenheim: Gugg

Conservation● Housed in Brooklyn loft studio● Original artist housing● Supplementary housing for

conservation to be done alongside inventory

Photo Documentation

● Photography of all works● Ingested into database● Object profile as image surrogate● Document condition and/or any

damage

Methodology of Work

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Concept Map

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Database design and implementation

Identification

Description

Relations

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Collection Hierarchy

http://pratt-institute.xdams.org/

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Example Record—Crosswalk

Materials NameTechniqueEvent

Dimension DisplayTypeUnitValue

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Projected Staff

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Archivist

IT manager

Art Handlers

Registrar

Interns

Photographer

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Projected Operational Supplies

Desktop Computers Laptop Computers

Cloud Storage Server & Rackspace storage

Digital Camera

Crating, protective packing, powertoolsImages from freevector.com

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Timeline for Completion