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Scope of Repurposed: Vision meets Sound
My research was challenging for some of these works because they are from living artists and some are still in what seems to be their private collection. I found most of my images from museums and the others were on auction web sites from previous sales or an official website.
Resource Template and Controlled Vocabularies
I used 13 elements from Dublin Core for my resource template. I renamed Creator to Artist as it is more natural language. I decided to create my own description for each piece to try to tie it in to the project and perhaps give some insight into why the musicians chose the artist for their cover image. I added the fields Relation and Is Referenced By because I felt that the musicians associated with the art work was an appropriate extrinsic relation and the cover image serves as a reference but can also stand alone. I left in Identifier, but as some of the items are owned from what I can assume is privately or by the artist, they do not have a catalogue number, so when there was no catalogue number I left that blank; the items with an identifier shows they are owned by an institution.
I used a mixture of controlled vocabularies for my site. I particularly liked Getty: ULAN for the Artist name because the website has a nice description of each artist. Getty AAT was used for the subject but I found it to be a bit limiting. For example, I wanted to use the term counterculture for the Robert Frank work, but what Getty offered was radicalism, so I typed in counterculture. I did use LOC for the source names and LOC Naming Authority File which I was pleased to find listed not only all musicians' names associated with my project, but even some of the exact recordings. I added Provenance to the resource template as I thought it would indicate the piece is collectable work of art. Finally, I added some new tags in an attempt to connect the art work to the musicians' work.