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Dear librarians
We have also tagged our art collection, using Getty AAT, and included a few emotions (hope, love…), but when we display a single object
from our collection, the tags for that object are hyperlinks to search for other works so tagged. So for example this work
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/69-5212
is tagged ‘love’ – you click on the word love and you get all the other works similarly tagged. So the metadata is perfectly visible.
And if you just search the collection, the tab for filtering by subject gives you a dropdown of all the Getty tags we have used.
Kind regards
TIM JONES
LIBRARIAN
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Corner Worcester Boulevard and Montreal Street
PO Box 2626
CHRISTCHURCH 8140
New Zealand
www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Suggestions for conceptual and formalist approach to searching for images
hi Margaret,
Great questions. The Tate Modern has catalogued their images in the ways you're asking. The downside is you have to know the metadata is there in each record to exploit it. I'm fascinated that they've tagged their artworks by emotion.
Find an individual artwork and scroll down to EXPLORE at the bottom of the record. There are links to other images, concepts or topics "like this one". Explore this
George Frederic Watts record. You can also start with a keyword search in
artworks for particular concept...such as
hope.
Best,
Ellen
Ellen Petraits
Research & Instruction Librarian
Coordinator of Graduate Library Instruction
Rhode Island School of Design
401.709.5905
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Margaret Ericson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello all,
I read a lot about how to serve the information /visual literacy needs of studio artists or the students in studio programs. I’m often challenged by questions posed by studio artists on how to use our subscription image databases to search for conceptual topics (e.g. identity or aesthetics) or those that reflect formal aspects of art works (color, perspective, proportion, distortion, etc.). Artstor is often frustrating for this user group when framing searches outside of the art history paradigm. Bridgeman Education is somewhat better in terms of metadata, but other features are not as user-friendly. Outside of Google, are there other image databases you recommend that retrieve results from a more conceptual framework, beyond author, title, museum collection, medium, country, time period. Will Artstor or Bridgeman be developing a “see more like this” feature that would extend the possibilities of searching beyond one or two known items that do fit the bill once identified?
I showed the painting faculty member the search feature of the Met’s Timeline of Art History, doing a search on “distorted still lifes” and she was happy to see a rich collection of images and references to the essays on cubism, fauvism, etc. Do you have any other strategies for using our major subscription image databases, or using other virtual means to search more abstract concepts by which a student could assemble a corpus of images?
Margaret D. Ericson|Arts Librarian and Copyright Liaison|Bixler Art and Music Library|Colby College Libraries|5662 Mayflower Hill|Waterville, Maine 04901|
(207) 859-5662
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