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The YourPaintings Website:
Strategies for cataloguing oil paintings for web users
Aimee BlackledgeSeptember 2009
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• Introduction to the YourPaintings website
• Data enhancement and the online user
• Issues for cataloguing oil paintings
• What functions could a user-interface offer?
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
Online Users:online users as museum visitors
• Browsers
• Followers
• Searchers
• Researchers
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnDevelopment of
Visitor Engagement
Browsers Followers
Followers Searchers
Searchers Researchers
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnData Enhancement
Artist nameDate of birth-date of deathTitleDate of executionMediumDimensionsCollection nameCollection Accession Number+ Period+ Artistic style or movement+ Subject matter
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnHigh Level Subject Categories
– people
– places
– natural world
– society
– religion & faith
– literature & mythology
– objects
– historical events
– activities
– abstract forms
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnSubject Facets and Categories
authorities
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
• Copies
• Function
• Texture
• Scale
• Subject Matter
Cataloguing oil paintings:Challenges for cataloguers and users
Collins, William, The Snyders Family (after Anthony Van Dyck). Oil on board, 27.1 x 21.9 cm.
Anthony Van Dyck, Family Portrait (possibly Jan Wildens and Family), 1621. The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnCopies
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnFunction
Henry Scott Tuke, The Message, 1890. Oil on canvas, 100x 89.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.
Henry Scott Tuke, Study for The Message (Mrs Fouracre), 1890. Oil on canvas, 28 x 20 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.
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Textures
Michael Finn, Untitled, 1991. Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 91.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnPainting Effects
John Marton, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Oil on canvas, 119 x 170 cm. Scarborough Museums and Art Gallery.
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Cranach, Lucas the elder (1472–1553)Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1532). Courtesy of Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries.
Scale
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You OwnSubject matter
Delacroix, Eugène (attributed to), 1798-1863, Madame Simon. Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 48.2.
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