93/ Categorization and metadata of 20,000 artworks: an on-going challenge
There may be a lot discuss concerning the primary description of artworks, referred to as descriptive metadata (‘knowledge about knowledge’) (1). Concurrently, the brand new expertise of laptop imaginative and prescient permits for sample recognition and content-analysis of digital photographs of artworks. Nevertheless, a significant laptop imaginative and prescient strategy requires an artwork historic perspective and topic evaluation of the artworks (2). Step one is the categorization on the nominal stage in a normal knowledge evaluation of artworks based on model, style, theme, and so forth.
This submit refers back to the Digital Thematic Analysis Assortment of ‘The Iconography of Venus from the Center Ages to Fashionable Occasions’ the place all artworks with their metadata are categorized into 18 fundamental subjects with a strategy equal in all six ‘topical’ catalogues revealed since 2007 (3). The gathering is a worthwhile asset for the event of a ‘deep studying’ approach (4).
Presently, the topical catalogue Vol 2.1 ‘The French Venus’, with 2,997 artworks of 997 recognized French artists revealed in 2009, is being revised: model 2.1.1 contains now 3,800 artworks of 1,231 artists and is revealed immediately as a draft at academia.edu with open discussion throughout 20 days.
The compilation on this model is finalized for 409 artists with surname within the alphabetical listing [A,B]. They signify already 33% of the present listing of artists. Subsequent variations will prolong and proper the compilation accordingly.
NOTES
1. Dahlgren L et al (eds): ‘The Politics of Metadata’Digital Tradition and Society, n°1 (2021).
2. Mercuriali G: ‘Digital Art History and theComputational Imagination’. DAH-Journal #3: 140 – 151 (2019)
* Quantity 1.2 The Italian Venusrevisited (2018): 6,985 artworks of 1,876 artists. See additionally submit April 29, 2018 ‘The Italian Venus revisited’
* Quantity 2.1 The French Venus (2009): 2,997 artworks of 997 artists (presently revised: version 2.1.1)
* Quantity 3.1 The Venus of the Low Nations(2010): 2,636 artworks of 728 artists.
* Quantity 4.1 The German, Swiss and Central-European Venus (2012): 3,198 artworks of 1,506 artists. See additionally submit October 1, 2012 ‘A thematic compilation of 3200 German, Swiss and Central-Europeanartworks’
* Quantity 5.1 The British and Irish Venus (2013): 2,113 artworks of 912 artists. See additionally submit February 12, 2014 ‘The British and Irish Venus’
* Quantity 6.1 The Venus of the Japanese, Southern and Northern European Areas (2014): 1,371 artworks of 629 artists. See additionally submit March 27, 2014 ‘The Venus of theEastern, Southern and Northern European Regions’
and Internet Archive.
See additionally submit of June 12, 2011 ‘Whatare Topical Catalogues ?’
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Aubry M et al.:
‘Tracking Venus through the Ages.Deep Learning and the Study of Long-Term Iconological Circulations’ Visible Semantics – Visible World Networks, Circulations and Patterns. Worldwide Convention Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris 13-14 June 2019.
