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Learn effective strategies for cataloguing oil paintings on the YourPaintings website, including data enhancement, user-interface functions, and visitor engagement. Explore high-level subject categories, subject facets, and challenges faced by cataloguers and users.
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YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own The YourPaintings Website: Strategies for cataloguing oil paintings for web users Aimee BlackledgeSeptember 2009
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own • Introduction to the YourPaintings website • Data enhancement and the online user • Issues for cataloguing oil paintings • What functions could a user-interface offer?
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Online Users:online users as museum visitors • Browsers • Followers • Searchers • Researchers
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Development of Visitor Engagement Browsers Followers Followers Searchers Searchers Researchers
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Data Enhancement Artist name Date of birth-date of death Title Date of execution Medium Dimensions Collection name Collection Accession Number + Period + Artistic style or movement + Subject matter
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own High Level Subject Categories • people • places • natural world • society • religion & faith • literature & mythology • objects • historical events • activities • abstract forms
authorities YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Subject Facets and Categories
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Cataloguing oil paintings: Challenges for cataloguers and users • Copies • Function • Texture • Scale • Subject Matter
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Copies Anthony Van Dyck, Family Portrait (possibly Jan Wildens and Family), 1621. The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Collins, William, The Snyders Family (after Anthony Van Dyck). Oil on board, 27.1 x 21.9 cm.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Function Henry Scott Tuke, Study for The Message (Mrs Fouracre), 1890. Oil on canvas, 28 x 20 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery. Henry Scott Tuke, The Message, 1890. Oil on canvas, 100x 89.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Textures Michael Finn, Untitled, 1991. Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 91.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Painting Effects John Marton, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Oil on canvas, 119 x 170 cm. Scarborough Museums and Art Gallery.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Scale Cranach, Lucas the elder (1472–1553) Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1532). Courtesy of Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Subject matter Delacroix, Eugène (attributed to), 1798-1863, Madame Simon. Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 48.2.
YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own