He plans to have them mounted for traveling exhibitions, with searchable databases of engravings and owners' biographies.
Many institutions are developing publicly accessible Web sites that allow users to visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content.
This digital collection of British novelist Mary Webb's correspondence, manuscripts, first editions, and photographs was created in connection with the Stanford exhibition "Mary Webb: Neglected Genius," May 17 through August 29 , 2010. Database of 250 complete works of prose fiction by 109 authors from the period 1781 to 1901.
The library houses a focused collection of books, exhibition catalogues, articles, documents, and databases related to the highlights of our museum, and it is open to all visitors.
Over time, pertinent documentation will be made available in the online collections database, including full provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic information for objects wherever possible.
I worked on a Cardiff museum project for two months, helping set up temporary exhibitions, documenting objects and putting them on a computer database.
Basic information is recorded in a database – artist, title, date, medium, as well as exhibition and publication history and provenance.
A database of images is also instrumental when developing an exhibition – you can't consider works of art that you don't know you have.
Stories tell and photos prove, a realization that set Gottesman on her yearslong search of many thousands of archives and databases, with the 139 photos selected for the exhibition spanning the generations.
It has developed new visual technologies for collecting and presenting information in digital databases for teaching and research, and for museum exhibition.
