Public Art Extension Set and Profile - DRAFT
- Megan Forbes
Introduction
On August 18-19, 2016, 22 public art professionals convened in Denver to participate in a public art community design workshop. The event was co-hosted by CollectionSpace (CS) and the Public Art Archive (PAA), a project of the Western States Arts Federation. The 22 public art administrators in attendance represented a wide spectrum of roles. Present were artists, curators, conservators, registrars, visual librarians, a lawyer, collection managers, program managers, and members of a regional public art service organization.
The goals for the meeting were twofold. The primary goal was to gather feedback from a wide variety of practitioners on how they work and who they do that work for. A secondary goal was to foster an open community dialog about the need for more robust collection management system designed with the specific requirements of the public art field in mind, and the creation of field-wide standards in documentation.
A full report from the workshop is available here.
Recommended Extensions to support Public Art Administration
An extension is a group of fields added to a procedure or authority to support the work of a specific community of practice, such as fine art or anthropology. Extensions to more than one procedure or authority are referred to collectively as extension sets.
Procedure or Authority Name | Extension |
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Recommended Procedures and Authorities for the Public Art Profile
A group of procedures, authorities, and extensions combined to support the work of a specific community of practice are referred to as that community's profile. Often, procedures and authorities within the profile may be configured, or slightly changed, to better support the needs of that community of practice. Configuration and data maps marked profile include the above schema extensions, may have some field names changed, and may have some default fields hidden as they do not generally pertain to fine and contemporary art collections. Hidden fields may always be un-hidden if they are of use to a specific organization.