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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

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Back cover

Sam Quigleysquigley@artic.edu

Liz Neelyeneely@artic.edu