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

拟议的研究是建立一个在线数据库，对由弗朗西斯·西摩·哈登于1880年创立的皇家画家-版画家协会印刷品收藏中的作品进行编目。这将包括作品的数字复制品以及与版画有关的描述性和技术性信息以及与每个艺术家有关的传记细节。该作品集的重要性在于它跨越了125年的时间，其中包括来自不同群体的版画家的作品，包括老牌和新秀艺术家的作品。通过增加对该作品集的访问并提供补充信息，如传记细节，这一系列作品将被证明是对版画史的重大贡献。数据库中包含的大量信息还将有助于形成一个社会和技术背景框架，以便通过它来查看指纹，防止孤立地查看这些指纹。与此相伴随的是，在设计和建立数据库以展示收藏时，研究什么是最佳实践的想法也是与之相伴随的。这将包括研究从实物藏品中识别和获取相关信息的方法，在数据库中将这些信息组织成最佳效果，以及制定知识检索战略。竞标的目的是为了方便获取藏品，建立一个在线数据库将使任何有互联网收藏品的人都能查看指纹，这有助于消除地理障碍，因为它将不再需要用户首先前往阿什莫兰博物馆的藏品的物理位置。数据库内信息的组织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集合进行分类。虽然目前能够使用纸质清单对该集合进行基本搜索，但数据库将允许用户创建更复杂的搜索，例如基于主题的程序或技术搜索。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。信息的组织和词汇表的列入界定了与技术和工艺有关的术语，这也将有助于通过揭开描述印刷品的术语的神秘面纱，使一般浏览器，从而使更广泛的受众能够查阅这些资料。

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.