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Art TracksCarnegie Museum of ArtMarch 4, 2014
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The Art Tracks Team:
David NewburyLead Developer
Tracey Berg-FultonData NerdTravis SnyderCollections Database Administrator
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Our Advisors:
Lulu LippincottCurator, Fine Art
Costas KarakatsanisProvenance Researcher
And many other advisors
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What is Art Tracks?
An Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) project to digitize and visualize provenance information.
—Three year project—50% complete
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What does our provenance look like now?
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Digital Provenance Records at CMOA
Durand-Ruel, Paris, August 23, 1872 [1];Catholina Lambert, New Jersey;Lambert sale, American Art Association, Plaza Hotel, New York, NY, February 21, 1916 until February 24, 1916, no. 67; Durand-Ruel, Paris, until at least 1930; purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, by June 1936 [2]; anonymous sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., February 25, 1970, no. 19 [3]; Sam Salz, Inc., New York, NY; purchased by Museum, May 1971.
NOTES: [1] bought from the artist. [2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945" (no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer). [3] "Highly Important Impressionist, Post-Impressionist & Modern Paintings and Drawings", illustrated.
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What is good about Provenance right now?
—AAM standard—NEPIP portal—Getty Provenance index—The internet makes finding data possible—Provenance is a very active field
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What are the problems with provenance?
—Provenance isn’t searchable—Provenance isn’t (really) standardized—Provenance records aren't consistent—Provenance research is hard.
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What are the existing global standards?AAM suggested standard
...the provenanace is listed in chronological order, beginning with the earliest known owner.Life dates of owners, if known, are enclosed in brackets.Uncertain information is indicated by the terms "possibly" or "probably" and explained in footnotes.Dealers, auction houses, or agents are enclosed in parentheses to distinguish them from private owners.Relationships between owners and methods of transactions are indicated by punctuation:a semicolon is used to indicate that the work passed directly between two owners(including dealers, auction houses, or agents),and a period is used to seperate two owners (including dealers, auction houses, or agents)if a direct transfer did not occur or is not known to have occured.Footnotes are used to document or clarify information.
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What are the existing global standards?
—Text, usually in the AAM standard form—NGA has structured records in TMS
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
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Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
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Whatprovenancelooks like:
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Acquisition Methods:
Controlled Vocabulary
—"purchased by"—"gift of"—"by descent to"
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
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Acquisition Methods:
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Party:
Name, life dates, titles, relationships
—Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. [1909-1988]—Michel Monet, his son—Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
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Party:
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Location:
Building, City, State, Country
—New York, NY—France—Highclere Castle, West Berkshire, England
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
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Location:
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Dates:
Period of ownership
—January 1, 1995—until the 15th century—sometime between 1885 and 1895 until 1950
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
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John Doe, 1995
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John Doe, by 1995
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John Doe, after 1995
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John Doe, until 1995
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John Doe, until at least 1995
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John Doe, until sometime before 1995
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John Doe, in 1960
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John Doe, 1950 until 2000
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Footnotes:
Additional descriptive information
—Durand Ruel stock no. D1343—See curatorial file for more information—Her birth name was Ellen Mary Cassatt
purchased by Simon Bauer, Paris, France, by 1936 [2];[2] Listed and illustrated in "List of Property Removed from France during the War 1939-1945"(no. 7114, as belonging to Simon Bauer).
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What should it look like?
{ "id": 1011873, "category": "Painting", "medium": "oil on canvas", "title": "The Full-Length Mirror", "accession_number": "65.17.1", "image": "http://it-svr-emu03/imucma/imu.php?request=multimedia&irn=10183", "creation_date": "1910-01-01", "artist": { "name": "Pierre Bonnard", "location": { "lat": 48.69096, "lng": 9.14062, "name": "Europe", "geonameId": 6255148 } },
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What should it look like?
—JSON API—LIDO—Linked Open Data—Unstructured text blobs
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JSON APIApplication Programming Interface
A machine readable interface for accessing the collections information at CMOA.
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LIDOLightweight Information Describing Objects
XML based data formatCurrent best practice for museum data interchangeUsed by Google Art Project, among others
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Linked Open DataCIDOC-CRMCIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
ICOM standard for museum Linked Open DataFor connecting to external informationFor publishing information for others to link toAspirational: future of museum data
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Unstructured Text
Human readableWill need to be supported indefinitelyCurrent state of Collection Management Systems
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How are we getting from here to there?
—CMOA provenance standard—museum_provenance—Elysa
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CMOA provenance standard
Formalization of AAM standardDesigned for both human and machine readabilitySame structure, just stricter
Draft document available
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museum_provenance library
https://github.com/cmoa/museum_provenance
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Elysa tool
not yet released
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Live Demonstration.
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What have we done?
Created a digital standard for provenanceDeveloped a way to digitally publish provenance (almost)Data visualizations to help inform
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What haven’t we done?
User-friendly search interfaceFixed the provenance research problemMade sharing this information easy
Gotten other institutions involved
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What have we learned?
Linked Open Data is essential to do this wellWe need to link our CMS and provenance via an APIWe need to think about institutional authorityWe need a bibliography standard for provenance
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What have we learned?
Museums are not thinking about provenancein the context of digital humanities.
The amount of information is intimidating.
What sort of questions are possible/easy?
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How can you help?
Use our data.
Tell us what we don't know.
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How can you help?
Let us use your data.
Tell us what you want to know.
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How can you help?
Connect our institutions.
—Students—Contacts—Shared data
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Questions?
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Show & Tell
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Acquisition vs Size
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Creation vs Size
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Creation vs Acquisition
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Creation vs Acquisition