Art of Resting
Project Description:
This project focuses on the cataloging process of digital collections using Omeka-S, an open-source web application for managing, cataloging, and publishing materials online. My collection, Art of Resting, features 10 artworks that offer different interpretations of what rest/resting look like and where it can take place. “Rest” is both a noun and a verb, meaning it can be described as an action as well as physical manifestations; therefore, “rest” is accessible and tangible to living beings, things, and places, and also to the fixed and dead. Cataloged items were sourced and selected in the manifestation of photographs, paintings, sculptures, as well as objects and sites. Both manually input and programmatically added, I applied customized metadata fields to the assets to bring cohesion to the overall theme of rest.
Objective: Museum Information Management & Technologies
Methods:
Navigated the backend interface of Omeka-S by creating an Item Set and ingesting a set of 10 individual images.
Created a Resource Template in Omeka-S to define the parameters of descriptive fields and assign controlled vocabularies.
Customized descriptive fields that best describe my collection, such as changing the Subject field to Rester.
Applied descriptive standards using common metadata ontology, including Dublin Core and VRA.
Cataloged objects using Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO), a descriptive standard that adds discovery and access to cultural works.
Retrieved and ingested assets using Postman, an Application Programming Interface (API) from DPLA.
