Online Scholarly Catalogue (Getty Foundation)

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-17

Summary:

"Publishing scholarly collection catalogues is a critical part of a museum's mission. Based on meticulous research, these catalogues make available detailed information about the individual works in a museum's collection, ensuring the contents a place in art history. Yet printed volumes are costly to produce and difficult to update regularly; their potential content often exceeds allotted space. One could say they are like thoroughbred horses confined to stock pens. Digital publishing presents an alternative, and the Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) is helping museums make the transition from printed volumes to multimedia, web-based publications freely available to anyone with a computer, tablet, or smartphone. The Foundation launched OSCI in 2009 in partnership with the J. Paul Getty Museum and eight other institutions: the Art Institute of Chicago; the Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Seattle Art Museum; Tate; and the Walker Art Center. The consortium's goals are to create models for online catalogues that will dramatically increase access to museum collections; make available new, interdisciplinary, up-to-date research; and revolutionize how this research is conducted, presented, and utilized ... From the beginning, the OSCI partners have worked together to address these and other challenges. The initiative began with research and planning grants, before moving into implementation to build their catalogues. Nearly all of the OSCI publications have been completed. In addition, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is collaborating with the consortium to offer an online publishing "toolkit" with open-source software that can be used free of charge by other museums. Learn more about the IMA Lab's OSCI Toolkit ..."

Link:

http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/osci/index.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.getty_foundation oa.libraries oa.archives oa.museums oa.glam oa.catalogues oa.osci oa.tools oa.floss oa.toolkits oa.ch

Date tagged:

01/17/2015, 14:48

Date published:

01/17/2015, 09:48