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Ed Ruscha, Streets of Los Angeles project: developing collaborations to support digital art history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2021

Emily Pugh  and
Megan Sallabedra
Emily Pugh
Affiliation:
Principal Research Specialist, Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA90049, USA Email: epugh@getty.edu
Megan Sallabedra
Affiliation:
Research Associate, Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA90049, USA Email: msallabedra@getty.edu
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Abstract

For the past four years, the team working on the “Ed Ruscha, Streets of Los Angeles” project at the Getty Research Institute has worked to establish a framework for leveraging the benefits of collaboration and conversation between groups of people who work in different areas of expertise and communities of practice. Facilitating sustained conversations among art historians, art librarians, and technical specialists has proved a successful framework of mutual consultation between Getty staff and external collaborators. These conversations helped external collaborators better understand the kinds of metadata generated through the archival process and how it might be useful for investigating their particular research questions. In turn, Getty staff gained a better understanding of the kinds of metadata helpful to researchers, which helped determine our own priorities for this work. Moreover, new avenues of inquiry emerging from this collaborative project have outlined a path for articulating best practices in digital art history projects to come.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 44 - 50
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS

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