Describing artifacts: A look at the concepts of CDWA

CDWA GuidelinesGoogle search for ‘CDWA’ (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa)

Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (book)

UIUC full access: http://bit.ly/uiuc-cco

CDWA:“conceptual framework for describing and

accessing information about works of art, architecture, other material culture, groups and collections of works, and related images.”

Categories for the Description of Works of Art

A set ofcategories for the description of works of art

CDWA– Framework for articulating art and material culture– Not a schema– Includes core concepts

CDWA-Lite– XML schema of core CDWA concepts

CCO– Set of principles and examples for cataloguing material

culture, borrowing from the core CDWA categories

“Establish the logical focus of each Work Record, whether it is a single item, a work made up of several parts, or a physical group or collection of works. Clearly distinguish between Work Records and Image Records.” (Ten Key Principles of CCO, CCO 2)

"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat.

“An especially knotty but not uncommon example can be found in the archives of the

Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. The institute owns a 35-mm slide copied from a

lantern slide of a photograph by Erwin Panofsky, a distinguished 20th-century art historian. The

photograph is of a 15th century Dutch manuscript page that depicts a 2nd-century

Roman sarcophagus.”

Related Works: “important conceptual relationship with each other”

Intrinsic relationshipsWhole-part relationshipsGroup and Collection relationshipsSeries relationshipsComponents and Architectural Works

Extrinsic Relationships

FOR THE OBJECT, ARCHITECTURE, OR GROUP

Catalog LevelObject/Work TypeClassification TermTitle or NameMeasurements DescriptionMaterials and Techniques DescriptionCreator DescriptionCreator IdentityCreator RoleCreation Date Earliest Date Latest DateSubject MatterCurrent Location Repository Name/Geographic LocationCurrent Repository Numbers

FOR RELATED TEXTUAL REFERENCES AUTHORITY

Brief CitationFull Citation

FOR CREATOR IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY

NameSourceDisplay BiographyBirth DateDeath DateNationality/Culture/RaceLife Roles

FOR PLACE/LOCATION AUTHORITYPlace NameSourcePlace TypeBroader Context

FOR GENERIC CONCEPT AUTHORITYTermSourceBroader ContextScope NoteSource

FOR SUBJECT AUTHORITYSubject NameSourceBroader Context

CDWA Core Categories (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/categories.html)

1. Object/Work Type Wrapper2. Title Wrapper3. Display Creator4. Indexing Creator Wrapper5. Display Measurements6. Indexing Measurements Wrapper7. Display Materials/Techniques8. Indexing Materials/Technique

Wrapper9. Display State/Edition Wrapper

10. Style Wrapper11. Culture Wrapper12. Display Creation Date13. Indexing Dates Wrapper14. Location/Repository Wrapper15. Subject Indexing Wrapper16. Classification Wrapper17. Description/Descriptive Note Wrapper 18. Inscriptions Wrapper19. Related Works Wrapper

20. Rights for Work 21. Record Wrapper 22. Resource Wrapper

Descriptive Metadata

Administrative and Resource Metadata

Display: intended for users<cdwalite:displayCreator>

Michel Erhart (German, ca. 1440-after 1522)</cdwalite:displayCreator>

Indexing: intended for retrieval<cdwalite:indexingCreatorWrap> <cdwalite:indexingCreatorSet> <cdwalite:nameCreatorSet> <cdwalite:nameCreator type="personalName" termsource="ULAN"> Erhart, Michel </cdwalite:nameCreator> </cdwalite:nameCreatorSet> <cdwalite:nationalityCreator>German </cdwalite:nationalityCreator> <cdwalite:vitalDatesCreator birthdate="1435" deathdate="1525"> ca. 1440-after 1522</cdwalite:vitalDatesCreator> <cdwalite:roleCreator>sculptor </cdwalite:roleCreator> </cdwalite:indexingCreatorSet> </cdwalite:indexingCreatorWrap>

How would you categorize architecture?

[for the basilica in the Vatican, Italy]Saint Peter 's Basilica...... Old Saint Peter's (original structure, 324-1451)...... New Saint Peter 's (current structure, 1451-

present)............ Façade............ Dome............ Piazza

CCO 17

[for a memorial in Washington, DC]Lincoln Memorial........ Structure (as built)........ Competition (1908-1909)........ Competition (1911-1912)

CDWA Examples

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/examples.html

<cdwalite:classificationWrap> <cdwalite:classification>decorative arts</cdwalite:classification>

</cdwalite:classificationWrap>

<cdwalite:classificationWrap> <cdwalite:classification termsource="AAT"

termsourceID="aat300033618"> paintings</cdwalite:classification> </cdwalite:classificationWrap>

<cdwalite:classificationWrap> <cdwalite:classification termsource ="AAT" >

sculpture</cdwalite:classification> <cdwalite:classification>Pre-Columbian art</cdwalite:classification>

<cdwalite:classificationWrap>

Modelling CDWA LIte as an OWL-DL OntologyRichard Urban, http://www.richardurban.net/node/278