For the Art & Culture records at the ROM we have a Display Geography field in which we put all of our wobbliness, such as "Textile made in India, dress designed in Paris, made in Hong Kong" or "Allegedly from Shanxi (山西) but probably from Shaanxi (陕西)" and others that the Geography Xrfs just doesn't seem to handle properly yet, and we make the data in Xrfs appear more certain than it really is. 


One thing we are working out is how to have objects that have a number of possible origins in Geo Xrfs, for instance an object that is from *somewhere* in the Roman Empire could be from any one of three continents, which may perhaps require a Geography Type of "Multilocation". 😉


Robert B. J. Mason D.Phil (Oxon)
Royal Ontario Museum | Art and Culture
100 Queen's Park, Toronto , ON Canada  M5S 2C6
Associate Professor |  Near & Middle Eastern Civilisations  
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Subject: Question about Geography Type
 

Hi everyone,

 

I was wondering how other institutions handle describing the geography associated with an object that isn’t quite so straight forward. 

 

For example:

A drawing of three figures that is a study for a lunette that was created for the Detroit Public Library.

The drawing may not have been created in Detroit (we don’t know where it was created).  The drawing is not located in Detroit. The drawing does not depict the library or the city of Detroit. 

 

Does anyone use a geography type such as “Associated Place”? Do you just allow the title to be the only reference to the work’s geography?  If you do use a geography type for situations like this, do you display this information online?

 

Thanks!

Kelly

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Kelly Flaherty

Collections Cataloger

Princeton University Art Museum

(609) 258-3483

 

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