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From the Ground Up (or the Inside Out): New Approaches in Digital Publishing

SarahHromack — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:19:44 +0000

MW2012

Sarah Hromack, Whitney Museum of American Art; Rachel Craft, Indianapolis Museum of Art

http://www.imamuseum.org/

http://whitney.org

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From the Ground Up (or the Inside Out): New Approaches in Digital Publishing

Online Scholarly Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Planning to Implementation

eneely — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:45:53 +0000

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Elizabeth Neely and Sam Quigley, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

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The very definition of an online scholarly publication suggests accessibility and functionalities beyond print—a complex and groundbreaking endeavor entailing many challenges and opportunities. In envisioning our version of the online scholarly catalogue, the Art Institute of Chicago’s goal was to create a publication that would embrace the exciting world of digital publishing without leaving behind the weight and authority naturally ascribed to the book format. This paper shares some of the issues and lessons learned in pursuing this ambitious undertaking.

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Online Scholarly Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Planning to Implementation

eneely — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:47:43 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Online Scholarly Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Planning to Implementation

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Digital Publishing

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digital publishing frameworks

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scholarly publishing

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osci

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As part of an effort to shape the future of scholarly publishing, the Getty Foundation invited the Art Institute of Chicago and eight other museums to participate in a venture called the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI). This project aims to create new platforms for digital publications that provide in-depth curatorial research and conservation science alongside richly illustrated content in a format that readers find engaging, manageable, and unobtrusive.

We will demonstrate the Art Institute of Chicago’s first online scholarly catalogue entries, from the series Paintings and Drawings by the Impressionist Circle in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago launched in November 2011, including their rich high-resolution imagery, the ‘Multilayer Interactive Image Viewer’ as well as citation and marginalia reader tools. For those interested in the publication’s more technical end, we can also demonstrate the easy-to-use catalogue-authoring environment built in Drupal 7.

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Paper - in formal session

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Open

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http://publications.artic.edu/reader/monet-paintings-and-drawings-art-institute-...

Authors:

Liz Neely

Sam Quigley

From the Ground Up (or the Inside Out): New Approaches in Digital Publishing

SarahHromack — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:22:33 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

From the Ground Up (or the Inside Out): New Approaches in Digital Publishing

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Digital Publishing

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blogs

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content strategy

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multimedia

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Multimedia

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DIY

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Museums cannot ignore the importance of digital publishing and the impact it has on the organization’s content strategy. In this paper, Rachel Craft, Director of Publishing and Media at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN and Sarah Hromack, Digital Content Manager at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY—both professional blog editors—will consider the practical and theoretical implications of developing online publishing projects through disparate approaches while making an argument for institutionally-generated publications as a valuable means of engaging wider audiences.

Using the Whitney Museum’s recently launched online magazine, Whitney Stories (http://whitney.org/WhitneyStories), as her primary case study, Sarah Hromack will discuss the process of garnering in-house support for the publication, building an editorial and writing team, and pooling resources across departments in order to envision and execute a space for articulating more incidental, behind-the-scenes institutional narratives to the public. Those who face operational and budget limitations may find practical advice in this narrative, which will present publishing platforms and useful online tools for organizing and running an in-house publication.

Rachel Craft will approach the subject from the perspective of developing a digital publishing process that builds off of existing structures. The IMA is seeking to reorient its publication strategy and will be exploring how auxiliary stories and multimedia can be developed around existing catalogue content to enrich the digital reading experience. Proposed projects range from revisiting past publications to envisioning online-only editions of future scholarly catalogues. How can an organization create publications with substantial and purposeful interactive elements while avoiding the pitfalls of creating a “bells and whistles” effect?

This paper will also survey content approaches being explored by other organizations, both inside and outside of museums, and how these methods can inform and inspire our own work. In addition, a range of self-publishing tools will be presented that organizations can utilize to embark on their own digital publishing projects.

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Paper - in formal session

After Gutenberg

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http://whitney.org/whitneystories

Authors:

Sarah Hromack

Rachel Craft

Integration of Print and Digital Publishing Workflows

eneely — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:56:52 +0000

MW2011

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Integration of Print and Digital Publishing Workflows at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Digital Publishing

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Digital publishing economics

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challenges

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case studies

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museum publications

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economics

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The Art Institute of Chicago has been publishing award-winning scholarly and popular print catalogues for decades… but is this model sustainable? Digital publication appears to hold great promise for both user experience and global reach. To achieve these bright outcomes, however, institutions need to approach the challenges and opportunities of digital publication with creativity, willingness to reorganize around new ideas and the careful and adequate resourcing of this vitally important publishing agenda.

In this paper, we will share the Art Institute of Chicago’s experiences gained from forging new integrated print and digital publishing workflows. The discussion will focus on case studies from our ongoing efforts on the Monet and Renoir Systematic Catalogue supported by the Getty’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI), the Martin European Decorative Arts Gallery Interactives, the French Impressionism iPhone, iPad and Android applications, and other publications. These projects have all required a deeper collaboration between the technology, publications, education, and marketing/ communications departments. We will discuss our approaches to challenges brought on by these digital publishing opportunities, such as: How do we address the impact these workflows have on both job responsibilities and available human resources? Does increasing the digital publishing portfolio imply decreasing the number of print catalogues planned? How can we incentivize scholars to write for digital publication? Will certain features, such as footnotes and citation tools, allow the field of art history to better recognize the legitimacy of these digital works? What content and which publication channels are appropriate for revenue generating goals? Is new hardware like the iPad creating a new generation of expectations for digital publication? How sustainable are these digital publications as software evolves—are we considering the ongoing maintenance costs?

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Paper - in formal session

e-Books and Museum Publishing

Authors:

Sam Quigley

Liz Neely

Science Bulletins: Cross-media Publishing of Current Science Stories

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:57:39 +0000

Gano, S., Kinzler R., & Trakinski V. (2005). Science Bulletins: Cross-media Publishing of Current Science Stories. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings.