Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951
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Grant Holder:
Professor Alison Yarrington
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 is the first comprehensive study of sculptors, related businesses and trades investigated in the context of creative collaborations, art infrastructures, professional networks and cultural geographies. The primary outcome of Mapping Sculpture 1851-1951 will be an open access online database on the GU website with postings of articles analyzing the results of the research. The database launch will coincide with exhibitions in the V&A's Gilbert Bayes Gallery and a collections display at the Henry Moore Institute.
| Project start date: 2007-04 | Project end date: 2010-08 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Textual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| User contributed content | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Text
Software tools used:
MySQL, PHP
Source material used:
Mapping Sculpture has gathered information from c.2,800 documentary sources held by a range of public and private archives in seventeen cities across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The cities and sources were selected on the basis of prior research conducted during the project Pilot Study in 2005-6. During this initial study, estimates of the number of practitioners and related businesses active during the period were made and as a consequence two key decisions were taken that have shaped the content selection and data entry process. First, the research programme would focus on sources giving information on large groups of practitioners and sculpturally related businesses in a form that required minimal content selection (such as exhibition catalogues and trade directories). Second, that information gathered from sources would be entered into the system in small packets of data to optimise search functionality. The main groups of sources used by Mapping Sculpture have therefore included: exhibition catalogues; art society membership lists, annual reports, accounts and minutes; art school prospectuses and annual reports; trade directories and business publicity materials (such as advertisements in periodicals); census returns, birth, baptism, marriage and death records. Copyright for the content of the Mapping Sculpture database is held by the project at Glasgow University with the rights of all members of the team to have their contributions fully acknowledged on the website.
Digital resource created:
An open access online database on the GU website with postings of articles analyzing the results of the research.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
MySQL Database
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Alison Yarrington |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| Author(s) of record | Alison Yarrington |
| Title | Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 |
| Record created | 2010-10-01 |
| Record updated | 2011-06-02 11:57 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3631 |
| Citation of record | Alison Yarrington: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3631> created: 2010-10-01, last updated 2011-06-02 11:57 |