Printroom Online - Call for Papers
developments, results, perspectives
international conference on online databases for graphic works
Venues: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig and Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
Date: probably March 2011
Period of time: 3 days
Languages: German and English
Deadline: May 1st, 2010
By Spring 2011 the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel will have published about 40.000 entries for prints in their collections in a joint online print database ‘Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett’ (“Virtual Printroom”) (www.virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de). The project started in 2007 and is being sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for a period of four years. The Bildarchiv Foto Marburg collaborates in the project for the iconographic indexation of image content.
A growing number of institutions record, describe and digitise their collections of graphic works in online-databases or are planning to. The optimisation of the accessibility of prints and drawings is an essential precondition for scholarly research. Furthermore this development is of importance for the perception of art on paper by a general interested audience, and databases also provide qualified resources for e-learning, which is steadily gaining importance. The Internet may act as an intermediary for graphic collections in printrooms, libraries, archives, university and other collections. A web-based collective print index cumulating the data pools of many print collections is a logical consequence of the advancement of systematic indexing. Such a tool gives the possibility to reconstruct lost contexts between prints and books or manuscripts, for example. Digital indexing provides further possibilities for the virtual reconstruction of historically related collections.
In the digital era the relevance of the graphic image, and therefore also of print collections, depends significantly on a quantitatively and qualitatively convincing presentation and presence on the Internet. From this point of view the further development and networking of virtual printrooms is of great importance.
Aspects of the conference theme for possible papers:
o Possibilities of and limits to ‘graphic portals’: a new paradigm for printrooms?
o Graphic portals between research, education and institutional profiling
o Documentation of collections of graphic works: standards in metadata harvesting
o Standardisation and individualisation in database construction
o Subsequent use of metadata: interfaces for data transfer
o Cooperative indexing as model?
o Perspectives of networking: towards a virtual print catalogue
o The question of access: open access vs. copyright?
o Conservation aspects of digitising and describing art on paper
o Collections of graphic works in museums, libraries, archives and other institutions: recording, access, keeping and presentation
o Permanence and fluidity of digital imagery: the representation of the printed picture as digital image.
Please send your abstracts for lectures and workshops (maximum 500 words with title, speaker, institution, postal address, e-mail address and a two line CV) before May 1st, 2010 to vkk@hab.de. Lectures should last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions / discussion). The conference program will be published on the conference website in June 2010.
Project coordination Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett: Dr. Thomas Döring (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum), Dr. Christian Heitzmann (Herzog August Bibliothek).
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