HEARING THE ARTIST'S VOICE: A PROPOSAL FOR THE CREATION OF A COLLABORATIVE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF CALIFORNIA'S PRIMARY SOURCE ARTIST INFORMATION
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Authors
Richman, Cassandra L.
Issue Date
2007
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
The overall purpose of this project is to stimulate concrete action toward the creation of a comprehensive collaborative full-text online archive of California's primary source artist information (PSAII) as a model for other similar archives around the country. For the purposes of this thesis, primary source artist information is defined as any type of first-person artist-generated information including video or film images of artists speaking or working, audio or transcripts of artist interviews, lectures, debates, panels or symposia, rare photographs of artists, and documents written by artists such as diaries, personal letters and grant proposals. This does not include interpretation by outside parties such as curators, critics or journalists.
The ultimate goal of this effort is to facilitate continued use of PSAI by preserving that which is presently haphazardly stored on unstable and/or underutilized media, organizing it in combination with newly created information and making the results accessible to the widest audience possible. In today's rapidly changing multi-media and technological world, where researchers increasingly rely on the Internet, this means that the information needs to be online.