Thank you, all, for your great responses! The advice is so valuable, and I
appreciate it.
For anyone who might be curious about our response so far, here's a link to
the blog post and staff responses:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.reynoldahouse.org/connect/community/post/museum-hack-hacks-the-digital-wing-part-1&k=diZKtJPqj4jWksRIF4bjkw%3D%3D%0A&r=XTJzpIcEHE%2Fdpcfy6DYLFGXNnGz7Bd9JKTihuOsgjts%3D%0A&m=Zeq%2FRhVQyHLR35Qpc646nlVfp%2BRyqEaMRRtGSS813Kc%3D%0A&s=f3a793e28dd1c44700683d0e801bab1499732bbf12b65d248441d9283ddbda84
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:29 PM, David Lowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I use "Artist" when a photograph is documenting an artwork (I'm in the
> Photography Collection, so the photographer is obviously my primary
> concern). So, a record may have Photographer: Peter A. Juley & Son /
> Artist: Hans Hofmann. That is the only case where we don't specify the type
> of artist the artist is.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Diane Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hello all -
>>
>> Here is what we have related to graphics material (I'll spare you all of
>> our roles). Our graphics curator specializes in prints, so she was very
>> particular about the terms used in direct relating to printing, and made
>> sure that we tried to cover all of our bases.
>> I agree about Artist - we need to define that a bit better ourselves. I
>> know she's used Artist for noting the person that may have drawn an image
>> on a lithographic stone (if we know who it was). For our paintings we have
>> "Painter" but I think that seems redundant to Artist? Anyway:
>>
>> After a Work by - After a Work by
>> Artist - Made by (changed depending on what the item is)
>> Draftsman - Drawn by
>> Painter - Painted by
>> Photographer - Photographed by
>> Printer - Printed by
>> Printmaker - Made by
>> Publisher - Published by
>> Subject - Portrait of
>> Surveyor - Surveyed by (usually for our maps)
>>
>>
>> And of the prefixes we change depending on the item.
>> Here is one of our examples with a lot of different roles:
>> Printer: Printed by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
>> Artist: Drawn on stone by Arthur Fowler
>> Draftsman: Drawn by R. Bakewell
>> After a work by: After a work by Captain Parker
>> After a work by: After a work by Captain Chase
>>
>> For any uncertainty, we don't have a separate role, we change the Prefix
>> to Probably or Possibly - so 'Possibly engraved by' - depending on our
>> level of confidence in the attribution.
>> That way we can still pull everyone together that we are saying is a
>> printer.
>>
>> D.
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>> Subject: Re: Online collections and Artist vs. Engraver
>>
>> Hi all,
>> we are building our list of roles as we work and haven't distinguished
>> between departments nor have we decided on a display order. Franz, I like
>> your thought about the Artist role, it's true, it is rather imprecise and
>> that has bothered me a bit. I'm thinking maybe we should consider not using
>> it.
>> Here is what our list of roles looks like at present:
>> (Translated into English and with my explanations in parenthesis.)
>>
>> Artist
>> Author (of texts, books etc.)
>> Depicted (in photos)
>> Model
>> Originator
>> Portrayed (in artworks)
>> Photographer
>> Printer
>> Printer, probable
>> Producer
>> Producer, probable
>> Recipient (of letters)
>> Recipient, probable (of letters)
>> Sender (of letters)
>> Translator
>>
>> We've decided to mark uncertainty in the roles. In our previous system we
>> had no real constituents list, and people marked uncertainty with '(?)'
>> behind the name of the constituent, but that doesn't work very well when
>> you want to work with a proper list of constituents with one entry pr
>> constituent.
>> I suppose you need to have the roles your material requires, and I know
>> we will need more roles (and probably modiy some of the ones we've already
>> defined) when we continue working with our collection.
>>
>> Best, Hilde
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>> Digital samlingsforvalter | Digital Collection Manager
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