Creating an on-line interactive database to aid research into historic printmaking processes and techniques

创建在线交互式数据库以帮助研究历史版画工艺和技术

• 批准号: AH/E510906/1
• 负责人: Paul Thirkell
• 金额: $ 2.03万
• 依托单位: University of the West of England
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE510906%2F1
• 关键词: Creating; line; interactive; database; aid

The proposed research is to construct an on-line database cataloguing the works contained in the print collection of the Royal Society of the Painter-Printmakers, founded in 1880 by Francis Seymour Haden. This will include digital reproductions of the works alongside the descriptive and technical information relating to the print as well as biographical details pertaining to each artist The importance of the collection lies in the fact that it spans a period of 125 years and includes examples from a diverse group of printmakers including established and emerging artists.Through increasing access to this collection and supplying supplementary information, such as biographical detail, this body of work will prove a significant contribution to the history of printmaking. The body of information contained in the database will also help to form a social and technical contextual framework for the prints to be viewed through, preventing the prints from being viewed in isolation.Running alongside this is the idea of research into what constitutes best practice when designing and building databases to present a collection through. This will include looking at issues such as methodologies for identifying and capturing the relevant information from the physical collection, structuring this information to the best effect in the database as well as creating strategies for knowledge retrieval.The aim of the bid is to facilitate access to the collection, the creation of an on-line database will allow anyone with an internet collection to view the prints, aiding in the removal of geographical barriers as it will no longer require the user to travel to the physical location of the collection at the Ashmolean museum in the first instance. The structuring the information within the database and the building-in of data retrieval strategies will also allow the user to mterrogate the collection in a consistent and comprehensive manner. Although basic searches of the collection are currently able to be undertaken using the paper-based listings, the database would allow the user to create more complex searches, for example thematic based process or technique searches. The inclusion of a keyword taxonomy to catalogue the visual content of the print will also allow the user to undertake searches based on this content, for example searching for all prints in the collection that feature a sea view or a bridge.The database will provide a valuable research tool for researchers and those interested in the history of printmaking as it will provide access to an extensive and important body of work. The structuring of information and the inclusion of a glossary defining terms relating to technique and process will also help make the collection accessible to the general browser, and therefore a wider audience, by demystifying the terminology used to describe the prints.

拟议的研究是建立一个在线数据库编目的作品中包含的印刷收藏的皇家协会的画家，版画家，成立于1880年由弗朗西斯西摩哈登。这将包括作品的数字复制品，以及与印刷有关的描述和技术信息以及与每个艺术家有关的传记细节。该收藏的重要性在于它跨越了125年的时间，包括来自不同版画家群体的例子，包括成熟和新兴艺术家。通过增加对该收藏的访问和提供补充信息，如传记细节，这一机构的工作将证明是一个重大贡献的历史版画。数据库中包含的信息主体还将有助于形成一个社会和技术背景框架，供人们浏览，防止人们孤立地浏览印刷品。与此同时，在设计和建立数据库以展示收藏品时，还应研究什么是最佳做法。这将包括研究从实物收藏中识别和获取相关信息的方法，在数据库中以最佳效果构建这些信息，以及制定知识检索策略等问题。投标的目的是方便对收藏品的访问，建立一个在线数据库将允许任何拥有互联网收藏品的人查看印刷品，有助于消除地理障碍，因为它将不再要求用户首先前往阿什莫林博物馆的收藏品的物理位置。数据库内信息的结构化和数据检索战略的建立也将使用户能够以一致和全面的方式对收集的信息进行查询。虽然目前可以利用纸面清单对收集的资料进行基本搜索，但数据库将允许用户进行更复杂的搜索，例如基于专题的过程或技术搜索。通过关键词分类法对版画的视觉内容进行分类，用户还可以根据这些内容进行搜索，例如搜索收藏中所有具有海景或桥梁的版画。该数据库将为研究人员和对版画历史感兴趣的人提供宝贵的研究工具，因为它将提供对广泛而重要的作品的访问。信息的结构安排和列入一个词汇表，界定与技术和工艺有关的术语，也将有助于使一般浏览者能够查阅这些收藏，从而使更多的读者能够查阅，使人们能够了解用来描述这些印刷品的术语。