describing artifacts : a look at the concepts of cdwa
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Describing artifacts : A look at the concepts of CDWA. CDWA Guidelines Google search for ‘CDWA’ (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa ) Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (book) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Describing artifacts: A look at the concepts of CDWA
CDWA GuidelinesGoogle search for ‘CDWA’ (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa)
Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (book)
UIUC full access: http://bit.ly/uiuc-cco
CDWA:“conceptual framework for describing and
accessing information about works of art, architecture, other material culture, groups and collections of works, and related images.”
Categories for the Description of Works of Art
A set ofcategories for the description of works of art
CDWA– Framework for articulating art and material culture– Not a schema– Includes core concepts
CDWA-Lite– XML schema of core CDWA concepts
CCO– Set of principles and examples for cataloguing material
culture, borrowing from the core CDWA categories
“Establish the logical focus of each Work Record, whether it is a single item, a work made up of several parts, or a physical group or collection of works. Clearly distinguish between Work Records and Image Records.” (Ten Key Principles of CCO, CCO 2)
"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat.
“An especially knotty but not uncommon example can be found in the archives of the
Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. The institute owns a 35-mm slide copied from a
lantern slide of a photograph by Erwin Panofsky, a distinguished 20th-century art historian. The
photograph is of a 15th century Dutch manuscript page that depicts a 2nd-century
Roman sarcophagus.”
Related Works: “important conceptual relationship with each other”
Intrinsic relationshipsWhole-part relationshipsGroup and Collection relationshipsSeries relationshipsComponents and Architectural Works
Extrinsic Relationships
FOR THE OBJECT, ARCHITECTURE, OR GROUP
Catalog LevelObject/Work TypeClassification TermTitle or NameMeasurements DescriptionMaterials and Techniques DescriptionCreator DescriptionCreator IdentityCreator RoleCreation Date Earliest Date Latest DateSubject MatterCurrent Location Repository Name/Geographic LocationCurrent Repository Numbers
FOR RELATED TEXTUAL REFERENCES AUTHORITY
Brief CitationFull Citation
FOR CREATOR IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY
NameSourceDisplay BiographyBirth DateDeath DateNationality/Culture/RaceLife Roles
FOR PLACE/LOCATION AUTHORITYPlace NameSourcePlace TypeBroader Context
FOR GENERIC CONCEPT AUTHORITYTermSourceBroader ContextScope NoteSource
FOR SUBJECT AUTHORITYSubject NameSourceBroader Context
CDWA Core Categories (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/categories.html)
1. Object/Work Type Wrapper2. Title Wrapper3. Display Creator4. Indexing Creator Wrapper5. Display Measurements6. Indexing Measurements Wrapper7. Display Materials/Techniques8. Indexing Materials/Technique
Wrapper9. Display State/Edition Wrapper
10. Style Wrapper11. Culture Wrapper12. Display Creation Date13. Indexing Dates Wrapper14. Location/Repository Wrapper15. Subject Indexing Wrapper16. Classification Wrapper17. Description/Descriptive Note Wrapper 18. Inscriptions Wrapper19. Related Works Wrapper
20. Rights for Work 21. Record Wrapper 22. Resource Wrapper
Descriptive Metadata
Administrative and Resource Metadata
Display: intended for users<cdwalite:displayCreator>
Michel Erhart (German, ca. 1440-after 1522)</cdwalite:displayCreator>
Indexing: intended for retrieval<cdwalite:indexingCreatorWrap> <cdwalite:indexingCreatorSet> <cdwalite:nameCreatorSet> <cdwalite:nameCreator type="personalName" termsource="ULAN"> Erhart, Michel </cdwalite:nameCreator> </cdwalite:nameCreatorSet> <cdwalite:nationalityCreator>German </cdwalite:nationalityCreator> <cdwalite:vitalDatesCreator birthdate="1435" deathdate="1525"> ca. 1440-after 1522</cdwalite:vitalDatesCreator> <cdwalite:roleCreator>sculptor </cdwalite:roleCreator> </cdwalite:indexingCreatorSet> </cdwalite:indexingCreatorWrap>
How would you categorize architecture?
[for the basilica in the Vatican, Italy]Saint Peter 's Basilica...... Old Saint Peter's (original structure, 324-1451)...... New Saint Peter 's (current structure, 1451-
present)............ Façade............ Dome............ Piazza
CCO 17
[for a memorial in Washington, DC]Lincoln Memorial........ Structure (as built)........ Competition (1908-1909)........ Competition (1911-1912)
CDWA Examples
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/examples.html
<cdwalite:classificationWrap> <cdwalite:classification>decorative arts</cdwalite:classification>
</cdwalite:classificationWrap>
<cdwalite:classificationWrap> <cdwalite:classification termsource="AAT"
termsourceID="aat300033618"> paintings</cdwalite:classification> </cdwalite:classificationWrap>
<cdwalite:classificationWrap> <cdwalite:classification termsource ="AAT" >
sculpture</cdwalite:classification> <cdwalite:classification>Pre-Columbian art</cdwalite:classification>
<cdwalite:classificationWrap>
Modelling CDWA LIte as an OWL-DL OntologyRichard Urban, http://www.richardurban.net/node/278