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Dear ARLIS/NA Members, Just a reminder to join us on Saturday, Feb 19th at 11am cst for the ARLIS/NA sponsored session focused on Appraising Your Research As Data: Managing, Visualizing, and Preserving Your Scholarship,<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaa.confex.com%2Fcaa%2F2022%2Fmeetingapp.cgi%2FSession%2F9212%3Fclearcache%3D1&data=04%7C01%7Ce.wolf%40sothebysinstitute.com%7C39b52fd856ca4d42f72e08d9efc2597a%7Cb0067f83bfe14e9e8a2c51eed71010d2%7C0%7C0%7C637804440289383317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=KPyBAj4ELWrK%2FR0dHhfwrFhgf%2BwWMsjf3IEktK1phhI%3D&reserved=0>(abstracts below). Unfortunately, you must be registered for the CAA virtual conference to attend. Hope to see you there, Eric Eric M. Wolf, PhD Head Librarian and Faculty Member Sotheby's Institute of Art ARLIS/NA's CAA Affiliate Liaison Co-Chair CAA Committee on Research and Scholarship Abstract The scholarship used and produced by art historians and visual artists is no longer limited to journal articles, research notes, and works of art. Today, new approaches to art historical research and visual arts practice utilize media-rich and technology-robust sources of data such as GIS coordinates, 3D scans and prints, video games, Twitter feeds, Instagram images, and virtual and augmented reality tools. Research data management, data visualization, and data preservation play increasingly important roles in the evolving landscape of scholarly endeavors; and, academic libraries are expanding their services, creating new spaces, and developing frameworks to support new fields of inquiry by art history practitioners. Moreover, academic administrations are establishing institutional repository standards for all disciplines, and grant-funding agencies are requiring data management plans. Innovative faculty and students partner with librarians and library specialists for guidance on the discovery, use, and maintenance of diverse data formats. This panel will address useful research management practices, skills and methods to visually represent research, and processes and tools to archive and preserve data in all phases of the research lifecycle. Chairs Kim Collins<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaa.confex.com%2Fcaa%2F2022%2Fmeetingapp.cgi%2FPerson%2F242753&data=04%7C01%7Ce.wolf%40sothebysinstitute.com%7C39b52fd856ca4d42f72e08d9efc2597a%7Cb0067f83bfe14e9e8a2c51eed71010d2%7C0%7C0%7C637804440289383317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=8LTvK3IrmHaVXog7GlObLcGWD6fTj3Cm77%2Fb5DkM4nY%3D&reserved=0> Emory University Kate Cunningham<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaa.confex.com%2Fcaa%2F2022%2Fmeetingapp.cgi%2FPerson%2F283949&data=04%7C01%7Ce.wolf%40sothebysinstitute.com%7C39b52fd856ca4d42f72e08d9efc2597a%7Cb0067f83bfe14e9e8a2c51eed71010d2%7C0%7C0%7C637804440289383317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Bx6eMxX%2B%2BPlnkHcsZ5YaU5hLevzSf3DJ2Sb6D0iO1Ho%3D&reserved=0> University at Buffalo Presentations (new order of presentation) Visualizing Exhibition Catalog Data in a Digital Art History Project<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaa.confex.com%2Fcaa%2F2022%2Fmeetingapp.cgi%2FPaper%2F14394&data=04%7C01%7Ce.wolf%40sothebysinstitute.com%7C39b52fd856ca4d42f72e08d9efc2597a%7Cb0067f83bfe14e9e8a2c51eed71010d2%7C0%7C0%7C637804440289383317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=tIHwsx1hDqVIQZknryqT4s%2FAtBXNElmv9FUtlA4W8K4%3D&reserved=0> Miranda Siler, Pratt Institute Beyond the Fountain will create a new entrypoint into the history of the Society of Independent Artists by utilizing data from the first exhibition catalogue. The digital humanities project seeks to align with the original democratic spirit of the show, giving each artist an equal opportunity to be discovered through an interactive map. At the back of the 1917 catalogue is a list of names and addresses belonging to society members. A map created from this data will function as an entrypoint for further research. Possible lines of inquiry include finding clusters, thereby exposing hyper-local artist communities; searching for artists from a particular location; or looking for outliers and researching how they learned of the Society of Independent Artists. Overall, the goal of Beyond the Fountain is to explore the Society of Independent Artists in a new way, with an emphasis on bringing lesser-known artists to light. As the exhibition displayed the artists' work in a non-hierarchical order, so will the map, using coordinates instead of the alphabet. Keeping with the spirit of "no jury, no prizes," this map can help to disrupt the narrative that a "homogenous group of men" was responsible for the modern art movement in America. The hope is that Beyond the Fountain will spark new discussions, research, and points of view relating not only to the exhibition itself, but twentieth century American art more broadly. Enhancing Digital Visibility for Black Art, History, and Culture through Linked Open Data<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaa.confex.com%2Fcaa%2F2022%2Fmeetingapp.cgi%2FPaper%2F14505&data=04%7C01%7Ce.wolf%40sothebysinstitute.com%7C39b52fd856ca4d42f72e08d9efc2597a%7Cb0067f83bfe14e9e8a2c51eed71010d2%7C0%7C0%7C637804440289383317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=6Zdr9Dfpj5J1DoNm4Ww3oeYrMBZI8YQJ9g%2FJfu1enoM%3D&reserved=0> Synatra Smith, Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives has developed a collaborative linked open data project to document the rich history of Black art in Philadelphia by developing a workflow to augment Wikidata records, gain an understanding of the limitations of Wikidata, and develop SPARQL queries and Python scripts to analyze and visualize the available data. Alongside this project, the Library and Archives has been working on the Art Information Commons, a collaborative, museum-wide initiative to analyze and document how the museum's art information data is created, used, and stored. The primary use case for the initiative evaluates the contextual data and art historical information around Black artists, histories, and representation within the museum's collections. Taken together, these projects provide an avenue for the museum to prioritize preserving and managing data related to Black art for future scholarship. This presentation will provide tips, tools, and challenges to develop such a project and demonstrate the way it can be integrated into other digital humanities projects, including a cultural heritage virtual reality project that curates three-dimensional models and associated contextual data within a model of a Black woman-owned independent bookstore. Managing the Complexity of a Collaborative Generative Art Practice<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaa.confex.com%2Fcaa%2F2022%2Fmeetingapp.cgi%2FPaper%2F14393&data=04%7C01%7Ce.wolf%40sothebysinstitute.com%7C39b52fd856ca4d42f72e08d9efc2597a%7Cb0067f83bfe14e9e8a2c51eed71010d2%7C0%7C0%7C637804440289383317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=EL5kyj5M%2Br1K4sNes9o7XqF9Okt%2F%2FT2RILrYAfuMhpM%3D&reserved=0> Jennifer Lyn Karson The UVM Art + Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Group is engaged in an ethnographic study of artificial intelligence. The group's collaborative research and art practice interrogates AI tools and is interested in the cartographies of its social and computational space. Under the direction of artist Jenn Karson, a faculty member in the Department of Art and Art History, the group has developed strategic methods to both manage its ability to produce tremendously large image datasets (thousands of files) alongside managing the storage and sharing of large image datasets. The University has supported the group's research by providing access to the Vermont Advanced Computing Core, providing terabytes of storage and customized trainings. Undergraduate and graduate research opportunities are supported by departmental funds and independent research credits as well as funding from the Northeast Cyberteam. The interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of this research that bridges the arts with high performance computing has required the group to customize research management practices such as how to identify, label, share and store visual data sets; how to manage collaborative coding; and how to name, distinguish, exhibit, share and archive visual datasets that have gone through multiple conversions such as analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog. Eric M. 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