Object:Photo

Review of Object:Photo, Reviewed August 2015 by Sarah Osborne Bender, Visual Resources Curator American University [email protected]

Behind the Image: Research in Photography

Book Review of Behind the Image: Research in Photography, by Ana Fox and Natasha Caruana. ISBN 9782940411665. Reviewed by Sarah Osborne Bender

Managing Image Collections: A Practical Guide

Book Review of Managing Image Collections: A Practical Guide, by Margot Note. ISBN 9781843345992. Reviewed by Sarah Osborne Bender

Citizen DJ

Review of Citizen DJ, Reviewed April 2021 by Sarah Osborne Bender, Head of Library Technical Services National Gallery of Art [email protected]

The David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base

Review of The David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base, Reviewed April 2018 by Sarah Osborne Bender, Director, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center National Museum of Women in the Arts [email protected]

Review: Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful

Book review of Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful edited by Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz. The Columbus Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2021. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25893-6 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Sarah Osborne Bender, Head of Technical Services, National Gallery of Art, [email protected]

Creating Linked Data with Wikibase.Cloud: Evans-Tibbs Archive Wikibase Project

The National Gallery of Art has been promoting greater diversity in its collections and exhibitions. As part of its efforts, the Gallery’s Library has launched a Wikibase project to increase visibility, connectivity, and accessibility of African American artists and related art information using Wikibase.cloud. Wikibase.cloud, a localized version of Wikidata, provides a free cloud-based platform for managing Linked Open Data. The main goal of the project is to set up an instance of Wikibase in Wikibase.cloud and test this tool for creating, managing, and accessing the information created across and managed within the departments of the Gallery. We, the project team, create Wikibase items to describe the characteristics of African American artists in the library’s Evans-Tibbs Archive and related art information such as their artwork and exhibition histories. Wikibase helps to link artists and their related art information which allows users to search and access information in a more efficient way. Since Wikibase employs linked data structures, we examine the potential for Wikibase or Linked Data applications on the Library’s named entity management and to connect information that we do not have a way to connect otherwise. This poster presentation will provide the data models, workflows, and tools we used and the challenges/lessons we learned over the course of this project

Notes

The ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee has drafted these best practices to provide practical guidance to catalogers working with art exhibition publications. The guidelines are confined to cataloging issues and situations characteristic of this type of material; they are intended to be used with and are compatible with other cataloging documentation including Resource Description and Access (RDA) and LC-PCC Policy Statements and Metadata Guidance Documents. Examples have been given using the MARC21 format for consistency and familiarity, but MARC21 is not a prescribed or preferred schema. The order of notes in this document generally follows the WEMI framework but can be adjusted for local practice or when it has been decided that a particular note is of primary importance

Assigning Subject and Genre/Form Headings

These best practices are concerned with applying the Library of Congress Subject Headings to art exhibition publications, and are intended for use with the relevant sections of the Library of Congress Subject Headings Manual. Assigning subject headings to exhibition publications presents a great opportunity for the exercise of cataloger’s judgment. Not only are art exhibition publications frequently published with little information about their subject beyond an artist’s name and a short checklist, but the existing bibliographic records that catalogers follow as examples can vary widely according to local practices. Many of these practices can depart from established standards published in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Manual

Title and Statement of Responsibility

Some forms of exhibition documentation, such as brochures or checklists, are produced in-house and may present bibliographical information in an unconventional fashion, requiring the cataloger to look well beyond the title page or even beyond the publication itself. Exhibition publications often require more use of cataloger's judgment, and more intervention in terms of transposing, omitting, and supplying data. Decision-making about the choice of a primary access point can be quite involved. And cataloging exhibition publications is probably more affected by local practices and guidelines than any other area of art documentation, since catalogers who work at institutions that mount or host exhibitions are often expected to provide more detail about their own institutions' publications. Though these are local practices, it is useful to alert other catalogers to this phenomenon