Supporting Digital Scholarship and Publishing at the Getty

Suppor&ng Digital Scholarship and Publishing at the Ge7y

Susan E. Edwards J. Paul Ge7y Trust, Los Angeles @jolifanta

The Ge7y

•  Collec&ons + exhibi&ons

•  “Idea lab” for art historians

•  Scholar resources

•  Conserva&on research

•  Training

•  Publishing

We work around the world.

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Suppor&ng Digital Scholarship

Suppor&ng Digital Work

• Open Content Program •  Free access to high resolu&on digital images

•  Linked Open Data •  AAT – Art & Architecture Thesaurus •  ULAN – Union List of Ar&st Names •  TGN – Thesaurus of Geographic Names •  CONA – Cultural Objects Name Authority

• CDWA – Categories for the Descrip&ons of Works of Art •  Structured metadata

Suppor&ng Digital Work Shitao

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Shi, Tao

Dadizi

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Digital Mellini—ini&al project

•  Frame art-‐historical research ques&ons in a computa&onal way

• Use new electronic tools and new research methods to work (and collaborate!) more efficiently, and ask new kinds of ques&ons

•  Facilitate sharing of both raw data and research findings

What would a digital version of this look like?

A Digital Workspace

•  Text annota&on • Document comparison • Bibliography builder • Discussion forum

Ge7y Scholars’ Workspace

•  Text annota&on • Document comparison • Bibliography builder • Discussion forum

To be released as open, free so/ware to the community.


•  Text annota&on • Document comparison • Bibliography builder • Discussion forum •  Light table

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•  Text annota&on • Document comparison • Bibliography builder • Discussion forum •  Light table •  Essay authoring

Screenshot of GSW



•  Text annota&on • Document comparison • Bibliography builder • Discussion forum •  Light table •  Essay authoring •  Image annota&on

Screenshot of GSW



•  Text annota&on • Document comparison • Bibliography builder • Discussion forum •  Light table •  Essay authoring •  Image annota&on •  Timeline builder

Screenshot of GSW


Suppor&ng Digital Scholarship

• Centralized •  Standards-‐based • Collabora&ve • Capacity for mul&ple perspec&ves • Represents shared knowledge •  Itera&ve • Open • Not perfect

Suppor&ng Digital Publishing

Ge7y Scholars’ Workspace Publica&ons

• Mellini is first publica&on

•  Scholarship born-‐digital, and published digitally

•  Establish standards and best prac&ce

• Much learned from OSCI

Digital Kirchner

Online Scholarly Catalog Ini&a&ve (OSCI)

•  Launched 2009 by Ge7y Founda&on

•  Funding for 8 museums

•  Create a model for digital catalogs

•  Enhancements only possible in a digital environment

• Many devices and formats

• What is a “digital publica&on” anyway? • Who is the audience?

• What does it look like?

• Who do we need to help us build it?

• Where’s the research?

• How do we cite it? • How do we edit it? • How will we maintain it?

Digital Mellini Publica&on

Composed Exploring Materiality Scholarly

Option A


Option B


Option C

Transforming Art History

•  Break with single authorial model

•  Capture conversa&ons, debates, different interpreta&ons and perspec&ves

•  Change processes and habits •  Enable produc&on of new knowledge, visualiza&ons, new types of publica&ons

•  Validate digital publica&ons

Thank you. 謝謝

Susan E. Edwards J. Paul Ge7y Trust, Los Angeles @jolifanta

Supporting Digital Scholarship and Publishing at the Getty

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