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THE ART INFORMATION TASK FORCE
The Art Information Task Force (AITF) brings together representatives
of communities that use and provide art information: art historians,
museum curators and registrars, visual resource professionals and
information managers. The AITF works to define information about
works of art from the researcher's perspective to create a standard for
the description of objects and images, a standard that will facilitate the
electronic exchange of this information.
The AITF is developing a document entitled *Categories for the
Description of Works of Art* that articulates an intellectual structure for
the content of object and image descriptions. The document has
already received extensive review from panels of scholars in a variety
of European and non-European subject areas and from visual resource
and art information specialists. AITF seeks to advance consensus
among all its constituencies. A special subcommittee of visual resource
professionals from VRA and ARLIS/NA helped to refine the Categories,
especially those applying to images.
By providing guidelines for content, independent from software and
hardware, AITF hopes that the Categories will become a standard to
which existing art systems may be mapped and upon which new
systems can be developed. The Categories are intended to enhance
compatibility between diverse systems wishing to share art information.
Such a standard will contribute to the integrity and longevity of
information transmitted across networks and migrated to new platforms.
Above all, it will provide researchers consistent, reliable access to
information stored on a variety of systems in far-flung places.
Accompanying the Categories and furthering the exchange of art
information, is a technical protocol based on ISO 8879, Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML). SGML is a protocol
recommended by the consortium for the Computer Interchange of
Museum Information (CIMI) which promotes an open, standards-based
approach to the creation and international interchange of information by
museums and cultural heritage organizations. As SGML is also
system-independent and designed to structure content, it is ideally
suited to the *Categories for the Description of Works of Art*. SGML
document type definitions (DTDs) have already been designed for
books, articles and serials. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has
developed an SGML text encoding model for all types of texts.
During 1994-1995, the Getty Art History Information Program and CIMI
will sponsor four SGML workshops at conferences beginning with the
International Committee for Documentation/Museum Computer Network
held on August 31, 1994. The Categories and accompanying materials
are scheduled for publication in 1995. A work in progress version of
the *Categories for the Description of Works of Art* is scheduled for
release through anonymous file transfer protocol (ftp) in November
1994. Comments and suggestions are invited and expected. For more
information, please contact Deborah Wilde at the Getty Art History
Information Program (DWilde@xxxxxxxxx)
**********
Sponsored by the College Art Association and the Getty Art History
Information Program, the Art Information Task Force maintains liaisons
with the Art Libraries Association of North America, the Museum
Computer Network and the Visual Resources Association. Since its
inception in 1990, the project has received funding from the Getty Art
History Information Program. In 1991 the National Endowment for the
Humanities provided impetus to the project by awarding a two-year
matching grant to the College Art Association.
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The following is being posted to AIA-L, AAT-L, ARLIS-L, CAAH,
CIDOC-L, IMAGELIB, MUSEUM-L, and VRA-L.
THE ART INFORMATION TASK FORCE
The Art Information Task Force (AITF) brings together representatives
of communities that use and provide art information: art historians,
museum curators and registrars, visual resource professionals and
information managers. The AITF works to define information about
works of art from the researcher's perspective to create a standard for
the description of objects and images, a standard that will facilitate the
electronic exchange of this information.
The AITF is developing a document entitled *Categories for the
Description of Works of Art* that articulates an intellectual structure for
the content of object and image descriptions. The document has
already received extensive review from panels of scholars in a variety
of European and non-European subject areas and from visual resource
and art information specialists. AITF seeks to advance consensus
among all its constituencies. A special subcommittee of visual resource
professionals from VRA and ARLIS/NA helped to refine the Categories,
especially those applying to images.
By providing guidelines for content, independent from software and
hardware, AITF hopes that the Categories will become a standard to
which existing art systems may be mapped and upon which new
systems can be developed. The Categories are intended to enhance
compatibility between diverse systems wishing to share art information.
Such a standard will contribute to the integrity and longevity of
information transmitted across networks and migrated to new platforms.
Above all, it will provide researchers consistent, reliable access to
information stored on a variety of systems in far-flung places.
Accompanying the Categories and furthering the exchange of art
information, is a technical protocol based on ISO 8879, Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML). SGML is a protocol
recommended by the consortium for the Computer Interchange of
Museum Information (CIMI) which promotes an open, standards-based
approach to the creation and international interchange of information by
museums and cultural heritage organizations. As SGML is also
system-independent and designed to structure content, it is ideally
suited to the *Categories for the Description of Works of Art*. SGML
document type definitions (DTDs) have already been designed for
books, articles and serials. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has
developed an SGML text encoding model for all types of texts.
During 1994-1995, the Getty Art History Information Program and CIMI
will sponsor four SGML workshops at conferences beginning with the
International Committee for Documentation/Museum Computer Network
held on August 31, 1994. The Categories and accompanying materials
are scheduled for publication in 1995. A work in progress version of
the *Categories for the Description of Works of Art* is scheduled for
release through anonymous file transfer protocol (ftp) in November
1994. Comments and suggestions are invited and expected. For more
information, please contact Deborah Wilde at the Getty Art History
Information Program (DWilde@xxxxxxxxx)
**********
Sponsored by the College Art Association and the Getty Art History
Information Program, the Art Information Task Force maintains liaisons
with the Art Libraries Association of North America, the Museum
Computer Network and the Visual Resources Association. Since its
inception in 1990, the project has received funding from the Getty Art
History Information Program. In 1991 the National Endowment for the
Humanities provided impetus to the project by awarding a two-year
matching grant to the College Art Association.