Cataloging Architecture and Architectural Drawings

196 Pages·2017·11.82 MB·English

Cataloging Architecture
and Architectural Drawings
with CDWA, CCO, and the Getty Vocabularies
Patricia Harpring
Managing Editor, Getty Vocabulary Program
Revised February 2022
Table of Contents
• Which Standards to Use ..... 3 • Materials and Techniques, Dimensions ... 126
• General Information about Cataloging .... 17 • Depicted Subject ...... 143
• AAT, TGN, ULAN, CONA, IA .... 44 • Inscriptions, Watermarks, etc. .... 159
• Relationships: Equivalence, Hierarchical, • Events ...... 165
Associative .... 60 • Style and Culture .... 168
• Catalog Level, Classification, Work Type .... 77 • Descriptive Note .... 171
• Title / Name ..... 93 • Provenance and Copyright ... 175
• Creator, Related People ..... 98 • Edition and State ..... 178
• Creation Date, Other Dates .... 111 • Other Important Data .... 181
• Current Location, Other Locations .... 120 • Making Data Accessible, Getty vocabs. .... 192
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
Which Standards to Use?
CDWA, CCO, others
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
What Standards and Vocabularies to Use?
• Why use standards and controlled vocabularies? To build good data.
• Using standards and controlled vocabularies will make the data more
consistent, more usable in-house and in broader environments, and
more able to withstand changes in technology and practices over time
• The greatest investment in cataloging is the human investment, with experts
analyzing and recording data
• You do not want to re-do this effort if you move to a new system or
share your data in new environments
• Although of course you will wish to edit and add to data as you acquire new
or additional information over time
• Your goal should be to record correctly once, and re-use data
as needed going forward
• This presentation is a discussion of appropriate standards and vocabularies
• For a full discussion of managing a project, see
“When we mean to build,
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/managing_project.pdf
We first survey the plot,
Then draw the model;”
William Shakespeare, King
Henry IV; Part II, Act I, Scene III
(Lord Bardolph)
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/
What Is CDWA?
Categories for the Description of Works of Art
• CDWA includes both a conceptual framework of elements and relationships,
and cataloging rules for describing, documenting, and cataloging cultural works
and related images
• Includes 540 elements
• Primary focus is art and architecture, including but not limited to prints,
manuscripts, paintings, sculpture, photographs, built works,
and other visual media
• Also covers many other types of cultural objects, including artifacts
and functional objects from the realm of material culture
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/
What Is CDWA?
• CDWA is the result of the work of the Art Information Task Force (AITF),
which included art historians, museum professionals, visual resource
professionals, archivists, and librarians
• AITF reached consensus on categories of information for describing works of art,
architecture, and other material culture
• CDWA is intended for the diverse disciplines and communities that use and
create information about art, architecture, and other material culture
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/
What Is CDWA?
 art works and material culture from all periods and all
geographic areas
 paintings  manuscripts
 works on paper  furniture
Includes guidelines for

 sculpture  decorative arts
cataloging and
documenting works of all  ceramics  performance art
types, including works  metalwork  architecture
themselves and the images
 artifacts  volumes
of these works, as well as
 photographs  groups
authorities

visual “surrogates” of works of art and objects
 photographs  digital images
 slides  videotapes
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/
What Is CDWA?
• Object/Work
• Styles/Periods/Movements
• Classification
• Subject Matter
• Orientation/Arrangement
• Context
• Titles or Names
 The 540 categories are • Exhibition/Loan History
• State
divided into a number
• Related Works
• Edition
of areas
• Related Visual Documentation
• Measurements
Only a few of these are

• Related Textual References
• Materials and Techniques
considered “core”
• Critical Responses
• Facture
• Physical Description • Cataloging History
• Inscriptions/Marks • Current Location
• Condition/Examination History • Descriptive Note
• Conservation/Treatment History • Person/Corporate Body Authority
• Creation • Place/Location Authority
• Ownership/Collecting History • Generic Concept Authority
• Copyright/Restrictions
• Subject Authority
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/
What Is CDWA?
Related Visual
Person/
Documentation
Corporate Body
Authority
 Relationships are critical to Place/Location
Authority Object/ Work
the CDWA model
Records
Links include the following:

Related Textual
object/work to another

Generic Concept Documentation
object/work, groups
Authority
related “authorities”

related images, sources

Subject Authority
Entity Relationship Diagram for CDWA
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies
http://cco.vrafoundation.org/
What Is CCO?
Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images
Chapter 1: Object Naming Chapter 6: Subject
• Includes rules and
Work Type / Title Subject
examples for a
Chapter 2: Creator Information Chapter 7: Class
core subset
Creator / Creator Role Class
• Derived from the
Chapter 3: Physical Characteristics Chapter 8: Description
CDWA categories
Dimensions / Materials and Description / Other Descriptive
and the VRA Core
Techniques / Notes
Categories
State and Edition/ Additional Chapter 9. View Information
Physical Characteristics View Description / View Type /
• For the Work
Chapter 4: Stylistic and View Subject / View Date
• For Images of the
Chronological Information Authority 1: Personal and
Work
Style / Culture / Date Corporate Names
• Authorities
Chapter 5: Location and Geography Authority 2: Geographic Places
• 116 elements total Current Location / Creation Location Authority 3: Concept Authority
/ Discovery Location/ Former
• core elements Authority 4: Subject Authority
Location
Architecture: CDWA, CCO, Vocabularies