Psychogeography

Methodology

Why you chose the subject matter and objects for your project: I am interested in the Situationist International for political and aesthetic reasons. I came across the term "psychogeography" in another class and it seemed to me a term that I had known about inherently as an art historian, and wanted to explore it further.

Where you found your images and data: I started by searching works of art that immidiately came to mind, such as "Gas" by Edward Hopper. I searched various museum websites. For the works by situationists, I found works and references to works in various books about the SI.

Explain what fields/elements used in your resource template and why you chose them:

Title: I used the title of the work found from the source

Creator: This refers to the artist or author. Because some of my items were authors, I decided to keep the label "creator." I used the LOC names to enhance findability and to standardize the format of this field across works.

Date: The date that the work was created.

Coverage: Referring to the geographic location that the work depicts. For some works it is very obvious and necessary for its description, however some works are devoid of a location.

Description: A brief description or quote situating the work in the context of psychogeography.

Format: Dimensions of work.

Medium: Material used.

Identifier: I created an identifier for each work using the format "psychogeography_[LAST NAME of creator]"

Source: A URI link to where the image was found. This is useful to search for similar works within the collection.

Rights: Who owns the rights to work and generally where the work is located.

Item sets - Psychogeography.

Identify what fields you assigned a standardized controlled vocabulary, which vocabulary did you choose and why. Please do the same for any custom vocabularies you create/use: I decided to standardize only the "Creator" field, this seemed to be the most important field to standardize. I also linked to the original image in the "Source" field. I did not need to customize vocabularies.

Where did you get the object and data from: All information about the objects came from the museum website, or from captions in the print material.

Describe your perspective on the object? Are you cataloging as a work or as an image: I decided to catalog each work as an image. I think semantically what is represented on this site are images of works of art, and in keeping with the psychogeographic theme, I think that each work of art can only be fully experienced in person. Particularly the works of art from the Installation page, no one image can fully capture the scope of the work of art represented.

Example: Catalouging "The Double Dream of Spring"