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Hugh Ramsay project

Posted by  on Friday, November 13th 2015     

University of Melbourne CIs, Prof Jaynie Anderson and A/Prof Alison Inglis, and Melbourne Project Officer Emily Wubben have delivered yet another excellent content project.

In 2014, The University of Melbourne created the Hugh Ramsay Chair in Australian Art History, Faculty of Arts. It was the perfect opportunity for DAAO to develop a complete record of Ramsay’s life and work, drawing on data from a range of partner collections.

The project focussed on pulling in Recognition, Exhibition, Reference and Works data, including images, to Ramsay’s DAAO record. Thanks to Emily’s efforts, we now have a much more thorough records for this significant Australian artist.  The record also now includes images linking to the collections of 9 regional and metro cultural institutions: National Library of Australia, Art Gallery of WA, Art Gallery of SA,  Mildura Arts Centre, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Geelong Gallery, Geelong College, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum and Benalla Art Gallery.   Go Em!

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AEAF Archives

Posted by  on Thursday, November 12th 2015     
We’ve had some great opportunities to work with South Australian cultural organisations over the years.  This year DAAO partnered with the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF) on a project aimed at exposing their extensive archives.  In particular the project focussed on AEAF event data from 1974-84, which was not previously indexed online.

Project officer Sarah Northcott worked through archives from the period, including the publication A decade at the EAF: A History of the Experimental Art Foundation 1974-1984, Britton, Stephanie (ed.), to create and update nearly 500 person, group, event, work and reference records.

As it happens, Sarah has a particular interest in this period of the AEAF’s history.  Her Art History Thesis (Master of Arts, University of Adelaide 2012) was titled Institutional Responses to Post Object Art in Australia 1974-1979: The Experimental Art Foundation, ‘Link’ Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia,  so she was the perfect woman for the job.

Thanks to Sarah for all of her work in making this archive accessible through DAAO,  to CI Cathy Speck for initiating the project and especially to the Julie Lawton, Fulvia Mantelli and the AEAF team for their guidance and hospitality.
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ACUADS supports WA content expansion

Posted by  on Tuesday, November 3rd 2015     
Thank you to The Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS) for funding an expansion of DAAO’s work in Western Australia this year.

As a national research tool,  DAAO aims to be representative of creative practice in every Australian state and territory. However, initiating content growth in any state requires time on the ground to run feedback and training sessions and to assess digital collection data. In short, we need initial resources to support the DAAO community before it can be self-sustaining.  Gillian’s trip to WA this year was the first time we’ve had the opportunity to meet with local researchers and collecting institutions on their own turf, and we found that interest from WA exceeded our ability to respond.

Thanks to support from ACUADS, initiated by Prof. Marie Sierra, we were able to extend our work in WA and complete a data sharing partnership with Artsource, the peak membership body for visual artists in the state.  The partnership resulted in the creation of 416 NEW records, and still more data being added to existing stub records.  This is a fantastic result and we hope that this will become a bigger data partnership in future.

There is so much great work being done in WA, it’s great to be making new inroads in the area.

 

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Recent content projects

Posted by  on Tuesday, January 6th 2015     

While we’ve been working on scoping technical developments for the current LIEF project, we’ve also been busy on a couple of great content projects which will support our CIs and feed in to site developments.

Northern Tasmanian artists & collectives

CI Prof Marie Sierra enlisted former curator Rhonda Hamilton to publish information from the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery archives on the exhibition histories of Northern Tasmanian artists and collectives. Rhonda’s work has enriched data ingested during previous UTAS partnerships, and her work on the Olegas Truchanas record will help inform some of our refinements to the DAAO Works schema.

Past and Present. National Women’s Art Exhibition 1995

This project with Contemporary Art and Feminism (CAF), at the University of Sydney aims to fill in the gaps of feminist art exhibitions and events between 1975- 1995. One major resource for this is Past Present: The National Women’s Art Anthology edited by Joan Kerr and Jo Holder (Craftsman House), 1999.

Eric Riddler has been working with this and other resources to add content to the DAAO.  We will use this data as a test case for development of our export module and develop a visualisation.

We’ll have news on more content projects shortly.

 

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