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Integration of Print and Digital Publishing Workflows at the Art Institute of Chicago
Sam Quigley, VP for Collections Management / Museum CIO
Elizabeth Neely, Director of Digital Information and Access
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Actually, it’s about OSCI
Despite an acronym like that …
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• Aspirations
• Deliverables
• Specifications
• What It Is– (the good stuff)
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Institutional Aspirations
• Encourage embrace of digital publication– Show that it is possible to meet expectations of
a most comprehensive catalogue– Provide a stable, digital publication that can be
reliably cited by others in their scholarship– Make it look beautiful, book-like, and highly
readable & enjoyable to use
• Augment institutional publication capability– Not just another Web site
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Institutional Aspirations
• Transform data repository into an active agent for collective scholarly research– Authoring and publishing environment that also
maintains the scholarly product – Incorporates nuanced qualifications and
references, propelling future research
• Develop an insanely awesome, future-proofed digital publishing solution– Device agnostic, rendered in HTML5
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Planning Project Deliverables
• Working prototype of the publishing tool– Flexible for support of other authors / genres– Plans for full implementation
• Content research and analysis underway – Publication of volume during implementation
• Organizational change planning– Truly the hard part
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Implementation Deliverables
• Extension of CITI, the AIC’s database– Fields to accommodate references and qualifiers– Augment asset management, especially for
conservation and technical analytic reports
• Open Source toolset– API development to enable use by others– Available after initial online publication
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Includes fully footnoted and edited
Technical Notes
Provenance
References
Exhibition History
Curatorial Entry
In addition to
Large color plates
Technical images
Comparative illustrations
Details
Our “Gold Standard”
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Matisse:
Radical
Invention
1913-1917
catalogue
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Matisse:
Radical
Invention
1913-1917
Web site
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Impressionist Circle Series
• Volume 1, Monet: 33 paintings, 13 drawings
• Volume 2, Renoir: 16 paintings, 10 drawings
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Monet, Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, 1867 Metropolitan Museum of ArtMonet, The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867
• Each object will have a curatorial essay with accompanying footnotes and comparative illustrations
• Introducing new observations made using technical analytic tools in Conservation labs
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• Complete exhibition history
• Footnotes for any necessary explanations
• Link to relevant digitized AIC archival documents and exhibition catalogues
Paris, 2e Exposition de Peinture, April 1876, cat. 151.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Monet-Rodin, June-August 1889, cat. 5.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, April 6-October 9, 1932, cat. 19.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 292.
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Time Line
• Planning work completed June 30th– Standalone prototype
• Implementation immediately thereafter– Contingent on funding…
• Preview for 6-month usability study – Starting October 2011– 3 fleshed-out entries, other skeletal sections
• Complete publication online by Spring 2014
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Back cover
What It Is…
Liz Neely