In collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America's Cataloging Advisory Committee (ARLIS CAC), the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, The Clark Library, and the Morgan Library & Museum, Columbia University Libraries led an effort to develop ArtFrame, a BIBFRAME ontology extension for the description of two-and three-dimensional artworks. For questions or comments, please contact Melanie Wacker, Metadata Coordinator, Columbia University Libraries: mw2064 [ at ] columbia dot edu
NOTE: As described in the next section, this effort developed into the Art & Rare Materials BIBFRAME Ontology Extension.
NOTE: As of June 2018, the Art Libraries Society of North America's Cataloging Advisory Committee has begun to explore continued development and maintenance of ARM, in partnership with RBMS' Bibliographic Standards Committee and other community partners.
The Art & Rare Materials BIBFRAME Ontology Extension |
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The Art & Rare Materials BIBFRAME Ontology Extension (ARM), and the ontologies housed in the ARM GitHub repository have been developed as extensions of the BIBFRAME ontology for generalized bibliographic description to provide specialized modeling in the art and rare materials domains. These were originally conceived of as two separate projects: Columbia University led ArtFrame, an ontology extension for the description of two-and three-dimensional artworks, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America's Cataloging Advisory Committee (ARLIS CAC), the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, The Clark Library, and the Morgan Library & Museum. Meanwhile, Cornell University led the Rare Materials Ontology Extension (RareMat) in collaboration with the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscript Section's Bibliographic Standards Committee (RBMS-BSC); RareMat was intended to provide modeling for the complexity of rare materials, particularly item-level description not addressed in BIBFRAME. As work proceeded, it became apparent that many of the modeling needs of the two groups overlapped: physical description, physical condition and conservation, custodial history, measurements, awards and exhibitions, and so on. It was thus decided to merge the projects and jointly develop a single set of models. Meanwhile, select models were considered separable from the core models, amenable to independent implementation by users within and outside the bibliographic domain. These models have been pulled out of the core ontology into three modularized ontologies: awards, custodial history, and measurements. In addition to the ontologies, the group has generated several other outputs:
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Use Case Development
- Defined use cases for description of art
- Classified use cases into entity types
Prioritized use cases
Analyzed use cases and developed ontology requirements
- Compared ArtFrame use cases to Rare Material use cases and identified commonalities
Analysis/Modeling
- Accession Number
- Attributions
- Awards
- Bibliographic Citation
- Bindings
- Carriers & Bound-withs
- Custodial History
- Exhibitions
- Fonts, Handwriting Types and Notations
- Limitation Statement
- Markings
- Materials
- Measurements of Part, Whole and Arrangement
- Notes in Art
- Pagination and Foliation
- Physical Condition
- Signature Statements
- Style/Period
- Titles in Art
OWL file development
- Core Ontology
- Core ontology used in the description of art and rare materials.
- Ontology specification
- Human-readable documentation
- Award Ontology
- Specialized ontology for the description of awards received by bibliographic resources or agents; reusable in contexts beyond the bibliographic domain.
- Ontology specification
- Human-readable documentation
- Custodial History Ontology
- Specialized ontology for the description of awards received by bibliographic resources or agents; reusable in contexts beyond the bibliographic domain.
- Ontology specification
- Human-readable documentation
- Measurement Ontology
- Specialized ontology for the description of awards received by bibliographic resources or agents; reusable in contexts beyond the bibliographic domain.
- Ontology specification
- Human-readable documentation
- Activity Ontology
- The issue of whether to adopt the BIBFRAME Contribution model or the bibliotek-o Activity model has not yet been resolved. As a temporary accommodation, the Activity model is used, but the terms are stored in a separate ontology file with a distinct namespace for easy separation. The expectation is that either (1) the Activity model will be adopted, and the terms merged into the ARM Core Ontology, or (2) the BIBFRAME Contribution model will be adopted, the Activity ontology deprecated, and other associated revisions to the ARM ontologies and vocabularies be implemented.
- Ontology specification
- Human-readable documentation
Application Profiles (SHACL)
- Art: https://github.com/LD4P/arm/tree/master/application_profiles/art/shacl
- Recommendation for SHACL maintenance and development
In-Person Meetings
- In-Person Meeting of ARTframe + Rare Materials Ontology Extension (January 2018)
- In-Person Meeting of ARTframe + Rare Materials Ontology Extension (March 2017)
- Virtual meetings occurred weekly between July 2016 and July 2018
Presentations
- ALCTS Webinar: ArtFrame: Extending Library Ontologies for Works of Art (April 4, 2018,Melanie Wacker and Amber Billey)
- Presentation: The Outcome of the ArtFrame Project (ARLIS/NA Annual Conference, Feb. 27, 2018, Amber Billey, Marie-Chantal L’Ecuyer-Coelho, Jason Kovari and Melanie Wacker)
- Presentation: Artframe–Connecting two Worlds (Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 14, 2016, Roberto C. Ferrari and Melanie Wacker)
- Presentation: Artframe, LD4P@Columbia (METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council), June 2, 2016, Melanie Wacker)
- Presentation: LD4P@Columbia: BIBFRAME and Art Properties (BIBFRAME Update Forum, ALA Midwinter, Boston, MA, June 15, 2016, Amber Billey and Melanie Wacker)
- Presentation: Linked data in libraries: another fad or a paradigm shift? (Eastern New York ACRL spring conference, Saratoga, NY, May 23, 2016, Amber Billey)
Arden Alexander (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs)
Penny Baker (Clark Art Institute)
Roberto Ferrari (Columbia/Art Properties)
Paul Frank (Library of Congress)
Kate Harcourt (Columbia/OSMC)
Robert Rendall (Columbia/OSMC)
Margaret Smithglass (Columbia/Avery)
Melanie Wacker (Columbia/OSMC)
Amber Billey (Bard College)
Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (Columbia/OSMC)
Members of ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee:
William Blueher (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (November 2017- )
Marie-Chantal L'Écuyer-Coelho (Bibliotheque et Archives nationales Québec)
John A. Mair (Pratt Institute)
Elizabeth O'Keefe (November 2017- )
Andrea Puccio (Clark Art Institute)
Sherman Clarke (freelance art cataloger)
Bronwen Bitetti (Bard College)
Tamara Fultz (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (2016-November 2017)
Maria Oldal (Morgan Library & Museum)
Karen Stafford (Art Institute of Chicago)
Samantha Deutch (Frick Collection)
- Ontology extension to BIBFRAME 2.0 for describing art objects
- Application profile for the linked data description of art objects
- Data models for handling materiality, provenance, titles, and other concepts relevant to describing art objects
- Ontology documentation, including modeling illustrations