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Studia Humanitatis Journal

Texto correspondiente a la reseña del libro "Matilde Ucelay. Espainiako lehen emakume arkite... more Texto correspondiente a la reseña del libro "Matilde Ucelay. Espainiako lehen emakume arkitektoa. La primera arquitecta española. The First Spanish Woman Architect", publicado en 2021 por el Instituto de Arquitectura de Euskadi (Euskadiko Arkitektura Instituta). El artículo analiza esta edición trilingüe en español, euskera e inglés, que recoge tanto la biografía personal como la profesional de la primera mujer titulada en arquitectura en España.

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988

NEXTTO AIRLINES, libraries today boast one of the most successfully shared databases of informati... more NEXTTO AIRLINES, libraries today boast one of the most successfully shared databases of information. As with airline reservations, the initial impetus for the computerization of library cataloging was economicthe computer as a speedy way to communicate essentially repetitive information over vast distances. This is based on the assumption that many libraries across the land would all be cataloging the same book, and that the costly intellectual work could be shared by many libraries if there was an easy way of copying the first record entered into the database (American Library Association 1978). It was not easy to develop the international standards necessary for this cooperative effort. It took approximately 100years for the atdoption of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) that are today the "Bible" of book cataloging in this country. But unlike libraries, both archives and museums collect materials that are, by definition, unique. The economic incentive of "copy cataloging" has no validity for archives or museums and thus it has taken longer for these two kinds of institutions to agree to the concessions and compromises that are necessary to achieve standards. Two incentives seem to exist for the creation of standards for museum cataloging practices. One is the proliferation of cross-disciplinary collections and the desire for integrated catalogs (architecture as part of material culture as well as of art history and socioeconomic history). The other is the ability to incorporate the image into an automated cataloging system. Trevor Fawcett (1982), in his criticism of AACR2, called for an effort to "harmonise standards" and said that "if the potential scope of

American National Biography Online, 2000

BRILLIANT THE HYPOTHETICAL, NORMATIVE art historian, posited in the title of this essay, relies o... more BRILLIANT THE HYPOTHETICAL, NORMATIVE art historian, posited in the title of this essay, relies on memory, intuition or judgment, and luck to establish a context for any work or object of art. Only within some context, itself a mental construct of persuasive authority, can the work of art have significance and a place in history. Only then can it become worthy of those efforts of interpretation and analysis that constitute the discipline of art history and shape its scholarly goals. Yet no object seen for the first time-directly or through some form of reproduction-can appear entirely innocent of categorization. Its inclusion in the class of "art object" immediately bestows upon the object all the implications of that special category of objects made by artists, considered by critics and aestheticians, and studied by art historians. The class may often be taken for granted as part of a received tradition that requires no reconsideration, but the rise of new standards or positions of aesthetic judgment involve the history of taste while impinging upon the nominal, descriptive conventions of art and its subject matter, such as landscape, portrait, or still-life. The mutability of these conventions and their displacement by broader, more analytical terms already inform the study of modern art, but their theoretical implications for the study of the history of art as a whole have had little effect. Art historians are expected to study works of art in a historical context and with a manifest point of view. The question (usually unstated) of whether the object at hand is a work of art may be of great intrinsic interest, especially if the object-an African mask, a Mesopo

Introduction DEIRDRE GIRAL C. STAMAND ANGELA REPRFSENTING A DEPARTURE from the usual pattern of L... more Introduction DEIRDRE GIRAL C. STAMAND ANGELA REPRFSENTING A DEPARTURE from the usual pattern of Library Trends, this issue joins the concerns of traditional art librarianship both to topics found in information science-such as the nature and use of information-and to topics found in recent art historical writing, specifically the examination of the fundamental functions of the discipline and the construction of its information base. Dynamic technological advances in the last decades have caused librarians to rethink the structure of documentation and to reorient the purposes and goals of the institutions known as libraries. They have transformed libraries into scholarly information centers by widely expanding the access to information stored there and in other locations. While other fields can look to leading institutions to coordinate the linking of different kinds of information-and medicine stands out in this respect (Mathesdn and Cooper 1982; Goldstein Anderson 1986)the art field has no National Library of Art to provide guidance in this endeavor. Advances take place in widely separated projects, and the significance of work undertaken in a single institution to solve a local problem is seldom appreciated by the field as a whole due to the lack of recognized channels of communication. While this issue of Library Trends cannot aspire to fill this need, it can and does attempt to offer reflections on the present situation by people who have contributed significantly to the conceptual foundations of systems to link art objects and art information. Unlike most fields now developing integrated databases, the study of art concentrates upon a nonverbal entity-i.e., the work of art itself.

As digital libraries have grown, so has the need for developing more effective ways to access col... more As digital libraries have grown, so has the need for developing more effective ways to access collections. This talk will present an overview of the CLiMB project (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building), funded by the Mellon Foundation and currently underway at Columbia University. The goal of the project is to use computational linguistic techniques to extract metadata relevant to image collections, and thus to improve cataloging access. This research addresses the access bottleneck by applying the latest natural language processing techniques to the problem of identifying descriptive metadata. Our goal is to load our results into a database for image search, although we have not yet reached this phase of the project. This talk will report on research in CLiMB’s first phase. In addition, the talk will provide an overview of selected digital library projects at Columbia, in terms of collections, access and technology. • Mellon Technical Meeting, November 21st, 2003. Presen...

Digital image collections in libraries and other curatorial institutions grow too rapidly to crea... more Digital image collections in libraries and other curatorial institutions grow too rapidly to create new descriptive metadata for subject matter search or browsing. CLiMB (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building) was a project designed to address this dilemma that involved computer scientists, linguists, librarians, and art librarians. The CLiMB project followed an iterative evaluation model: each next phase of the project emerged from the results of an evaluation. After assembling a suite of text processing tools to be used in extracting metada, we conducted a formative evaluation with thirteen participants, using a survey in which we varied the order and type of four conditions under which respondents would propose or select image search terms. Results of the formative evaluation led us to conclude that a CLiMB ToolKit would work best if its main function was to propose terms for users to review. After implementing a prototype ToolKit using a browser interface, we conducted...

Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 1986

PROLOGUE "What is the use of a book/' thought Alice, "without pictures or conversat... more PROLOGUE "What is the use of a book/' thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" These words from Alice in Wonderland form a suitable framework for the description of the Avery Library architectural drawings project. For it is an attempt to expand an already existing database of information about books with infor mation about pictures (specifically drawings), having some of this information conveyed in pictures, or rather images, and the whole to be conversational, or to use the more appropriate term,

Art Libraries Journal, 1996

The Getty Art History Information Program has joined with MUSE Educational Media in a project bri... more The Getty Art History Information Program has joined with MUSE Educational Media in a project bringing together seven universities and seven art museums for the purpose of making digital images of works of art available for study and teaching via campus networks. Beyond the immediate benefits to its participants, the project is designed to develop methods and guidelines for the academic use of digitized museum-owned materials at colleges and universities. Columbia University and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts are two of the participants in the project, which is remarkable for the level of collaboration which it is achieving between museums and universities.

Art Libraries Journal, 1998

Can museums and libraries profit from sharing their information, visual or textual? Is direct acc... more Can museums and libraries profit from sharing their information, visual or textual? Is direct access to digital archives a more logical or economic way to develop access to images for teaching and research than assembling local collections? Recent digital image library projects in the United States, and their impact on the teaching practices of art and architectural historians, show the advantages of focusing on issues such as licensing and intellectual property, metadata and evolving cataloging practice, image quality, and the different costs of creation and delivery. But there are other potential benefits such as document delivery and the dissemination of archival information, as well as the preservation of fragile illustrated texts through digital imaging.

Art Libraries Journal, 1997

Through the last decade the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), recently renamed the Ge... more Through the last decade the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), recently renamed the Getty Information Institute, has been subsidising end-user online access to scholarly research databases. A study of subsidised access to Dialog databases provided to Getty Centre resident scholars has been reported by Marcia Bates, who found that searching patterns in humanities research differ substantially from those previously investigated in science and the social sciences. The cost of collecting research information and of making it available greatly exceeds revenues generated from its use; inability to measure use is an obstacle to justifying maintenance of subsidies at present levels. Key factors to be considered in assessing the relative value of different models of information provision include information quality, number of accesses, royalties received, user charges, producer subsidy, and user input. Analysis suggests that the non-profit method provides the best mode of access a...

Library Trends, 1988

Bitacora Arquitectura, Mar 10, 2012

Este articulo se basa en un amplio estudio de los archivos de las universidades de Columbia y Pr... more Este articulo se basa en un amplio estudio de los archivos de las universidades de Columbia y Princeton para trazar la relacion entre Felix Candela y los Estados Unidos, ademas de su vinculo con la lengua inglesa a traves de su vida. Utilizando citas de la correspondencia de Candela y otros documentos, el articulo demuestra que Candela tuvo gran interes por la lengua inglesa y por diseminar sus ideas mediante publicaciones norteamericanas desde el principio de su carrera.