{"id":491,"date":"2016-01-26T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/?p=491"},"modified":"2016-01-26T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:00:24","slug":"cataloging-non-western-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/01\/26\/cataloging-non-western-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataloging non-western art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) guide is an extensive guide that seeks to recommend how collections should be documented.\u00a0 It covers things that are seemingly obvious, like being consistent, but when applied become so complex it can make your head hurt.\u00a0 The CCO lies down suggestions, not guidelines.\u00a0 Ideally, it seems that the guidelines could make it easier for collections to speak to one another, such as when a museum loans, but there are so many suggestions and factors that need to be considered in this that I don\u2019t think it becomes any easier with application.<\/p>\n

Last quarter I was part of a class that worked on creating a digital archive of images for African art classes.\u00a0 This essentially consisted of researching the images, which were already collected on artstor<\/a>, and adding to them all the catalog or metadata that we could find on them.\u00a0 While this seemed like an easy process at the get-go, it quickly became more complex as we began the research pro\"artstor\"<\/a>cess because the works of art were so diverse.\u00a0 Being non-western, much of their metadata did not fit into the traditional categories that artstor had.\u00a0 How do you classify a work\u2019s \u201cperiod\/style\u201d when it\u2019s a form that is widely used throughout a specific culture’s existence? How do you give it a country of origin when the work was from a cultural group that crosses national borders?<\/p>\n

We were able to find workarounds but the general naming convention of cataloging sites such as artstor and Dublin core can be awkward when applied to non-western works. \u00a0The CCO attempts to cover all of its bases but the fact still stands that we have not fully addressed how to mediate between western and non-western art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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