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. > ================================================================== > Diane Lee | Collections Manager > [log in to unmask] | (860) 236-5621 x(242) > Connecticut Historical Society | One Elizabeth Street | Hartford, CT 06105 > | www.chs.org > > Upcoming Events | Membership | Donate | Volunteer > Visit us on Facebook and Twitter @ConnHistSoc > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On Behalf Of Hilde Boe \\eoj > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 7:52 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 > -- > Hilde Bøe > Digital samlingsforvalter | Digital Collection Manager > [log in to unmask] > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://munchmuseet.no/&k=diZKtJPqj4jWksRIF4bjkw%3D%3D%0A&r=XTJzpIcEHE%2Fdpcfy6DYLFGXNnGz7Bd9JKTihuOsgjts%3D%0A&m=J8bpgQ%2Fx1%2F5HhaJBA7qKlbdmQoY1B7O9m9lCrT6gvNY%3D%0A&s=0774323f38625059a012849b2b92e6af4f8078daa76b0b90f2d7f661c054a6e1| > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://emunch.no/&k=diZKtJPqj4jWksRIF4bjkw%3D%3D%0A&r=XTJzpIcEHE%2Fdpcfy6DYLFGXNnGz7Bd9JKTihuOsgjts%3D%0A&m=J8bpgQ%2Fx1%2F5HhaJBA7qKlbdmQoY1B7O9m9lCrT6gvNY%3D%0A&s=704cc6d6d1556025bbb7d034320666b1443bc8f056ae4077bb34ebc4819bf2d1 > > > To unsubscribe, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the > following commands in the body of the email: > > signoff TMSUSERS > > // eoj > > > You will receive a confirmation that your subscription has been removed. > > To unsubscribe, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the > following commands in the body of the email: > > signoff TMSUSERS > > // eoj > > > You will receive a confirmation that your subscription has been removed. > To unsubscribe, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following commands in the body of the email: signoff TMSUSERS // eoj You will receive a confirmation that your subscription has been removed.