Wednesday, November 18, 12:00 noon
Frist Multipurpose Room B
Smart Art: Database Tools for Research and Curation
Janet Strohl-Morgan, Cathryn Goodwin, Bryan R. Just
The Princeton University Art Museum, Educational Technologies Center, and the Broadcast Center have collaborated on a number of projects over the years. Just completed is a website to accompany the Museum’s exhibition, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. The website highlights the unique and compelling archaeological art primarily from the first millennia A.D. of the Bering Strait region.
For this and other projects, the museum and ETC have written special components to connect to the museum’s SQL Collection Information Management System and deliver content and images through Roxen.
Art Museum staff will share the decision to partner with OIT and to use Roxen as its content management system; discuss the potential of the Roxen connection to the Museum’s database to enhance access to collections and scholarship; and demonstrate how this sustainable “single source” architecture works for Art Museum collection information online.
Speaker Bios: Janet Strohl-Morgan manages the Information Technology department at the Princeton University Art Museum. The IT department is responsible for all web-based, database, and digital projects including social media initiatives. Janet has been with the University for more than ten years and has collaborated with numerous university departments on a wide range of projects.
Cathryn Goodwin manages Collections Information and Access at the Princeton University Art Museum. She oversees content standards for cataloguing works of art in the museum, and implements best practices for museum electronic documentation. Cathryn is responsible for providing access to collections online to the University Community and to the public.
Bryan R. Just is the Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curator and Lecturer of the Art of the Ancient Americas. Just received a B.A. in Archaeological Studies and the History of Art from Yale University (1995) and an M.A. (1999) in Art History and a Ph.D. (2006) in Art History and Linguistics, both from Tulane University. A specialist ancient Maya art history, his recent publications include “Modifications of Ancient Maya Sculpture” (in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics [2005]) and “In Extenso Almanacs in the Madrid Codex” (in The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript [2004]). He also contributed to the Princeton University Art Museum’s Handbook of the Collections (2007). Just recently served as co-curator for the exhibition Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, co-curated by William Fitzhugh and Julie Hollowell, which is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum through January 10, 2010.
