[OpenGLAM] e-artexte: Open Access and visual arts publishing in Canada

Thu Jun 27 21:33:05 UTC 2013

Corina,

Is there a way to browse just the digitized items? This is a wonderful
collection and reminds me of an essay a friend of mine recently had
published in the Journal of Western Archives on zine archives (see:
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol4/iss1/6/).

Thank you for sharing!

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:03 AM, C MacDonald <corina at corinamacdonald.net>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
> I wanted to post something to the list about a project that I am involved
> with that I think would be of interest to the OpenGLAM community (
> http://e-artexte.ca/).
>
> I’m going to be doing outreach and training activities in the coming year
> related to this project and would be interested in collaborating with any
> GLAM related organizations that are doing work in Open Access or digital
> publishing in the arts, especially if there are any Canadians on this list
> (?)
>
>
>
> If anyone wants more details about Artexte and e-artexte, don’t hesitate
> to email me.
>
>
>
> *Some background*
>
> *
> *
>
> Artexte is a non-profit arts organization that was founded in 1981. Our
> mandate is to document contemporary art from 1965 to the present with
> special emphasis on Canadian art. We also facilitate research in this area
> by offering reference services, by making our collection accessible to the
> public, and by developing rigorous information resources. The collection
> of Artexte includes over 23,000 items such as monographs, exhibition
> catalogues, periodicals and artists’ books as well as 7,000 artists’ files
> and 3,000 files on arts organizations (including museums, artist-run
> centres and art galleries).
>
>
>
> *What is e-artexte?*
>
> *
> *
>
> e-artexte is an Open Access digital repository that was developed in part
> to replace the existing bibliographic database at Artexte, and to provide a
> self-archiving service to our publishing and writing community. The service
> was launched in February 2013, and so far we have received a small
> selection of digital publications, many of which complement printed
> materials that exist in our collection. Digital publications are made
> available through Creative Commons licensing, and our metadata is open for
> re-use for non-commercial purposes, although we are looking at removing all
> restrictions on re-use.
>
>
>
> e-artexte uses the open source repository software EPrints (
> http://www.eprints.org/), but this software was significantly customized
> to respond to the specialized needs of Artexte metadata and cataloguing
> practices. In fact, we wrote an article about it!
>
>
>
> Neugebauer, Tomasz and MacDonald, Corina and Tayler, Felicity (2012)
> Artexte metadata conversion to EPrints: adaptation of digital repository
> software to visual and media arts documentation. International Journal on
> Digital Libraries, 11 (4). pp. 263-277. ISSN 1432-5012
> http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/973566/
>
>
>
> *Who uses it?*
>
> *
> *
>
> The concepts and practices around Open Access, self-archiving, and
> Creative Commons licensing are new to most of our community of publishers
> who deposit their print publications with Artexte. Our aim is to promote
> this access model from scholarly publishing as one that can bring together
> and contextualize contemporary art writing from across the country. The
> types of publishers we will be working with include artists, curators,
> critics, museums, galleries, artist-run centres and other arts
> organizations or collectives.
>
>
>
> One of the issues raised by many publishers in this community is the need
> for better distribution, access and visibility of their work. While many of
> them do sell their publications, revenues from publishing are generally
> quite small. They seem to be very interested in Open Access and e-artexte
> as an avenue for providing long term access and wider visibility.
>
>
>
> *What’s next?*
>
> *
> *
>
> Our focus now is on outreach and training activities. In April I did an
> e-artexte workshop for a small group of publishers in Montreal; more of
> these workshops are planned in Montreal over 2013-2014. I also just
> presented e-artexte at a forum in Saint John, New Brunswick on independent
> publishing organized by the Artist-run Centres and Collectives Conference (
> http://www.arccc-cccaa.org/en/arca/), a national umbrella organization.
>
>
>
> I’m hoping to meet with more visual arts publishers in the coming year to
> promote Creative Commons licensing and Open Access as tools that will
> increase the visibility and dissemination of publications over the
> internet. I will also be developing online training materials on these
> subjects.
>
>
>
> On another note, we are also doing some data visualization work with
> e-artexte metadata. Tomasz Neugebauer, our colleague at Concordia
> University, has developed for example a timeline visualization of
> exhibition catalogues in photography:
> http://www.photographymedia.com/visualizations/artexte/e-artexte-1.html
>
>
>
> Now we have started working on a new visualization project to see what
> social network analysis can tell us about the history of conceptual art in
> Canada. More details on that in the fall!
>
>
>
> *Some cool stuff*
>
> * *
>
> I thought I would just point out a few artists’ books that we have
> received digital copies of that you might find interesting:
>
>
>
> Anon. *All the Names of In Search of Lost Time : Marcel Proust.*<http://e-artexte.ca/23700/> Toronto,
> Ont.: Parasitic Ventures Press, 2006.
>
> Anon. *The Three Critiques of Immanuel Kant.* <http://e-artexte.ca/23701/> Open
> ed. Toronto, Ont.: Parasitic Ventures Press.
>
> Eyland, Cliff. *Cliff Eyland 2012 : National Gallery of Canada, Library
> and Archives = Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Bibliothèque et archives.*<http://e-artexte.ca/23661/> Ottawa,
> On: Cliff Eyland, 2012.
>
> Eyland, Cliff. *Venetian Proposal.* <http://e-artexte.ca/23710/> Winnipeg,
> Man.: Cliff Eyland, 2012.
>
> Maranda, Michael. *Good & Evil.* <http://e-artexte.ca/23698/> Toronto,
> Ont.: Parasitic Ventures Press, 2010.
>
> Maranda, Michael. *Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 2.0.*<http://e-artexte.ca/23702/> Toronto,
> Ont.: Parasitic Ventures Press, 2010.
>
> Scholes, Douglas and Canty, Daniel. *The Condition of Things.*<http://e-artexte.ca/23709/> London,
> England: Space, 2012.
>
> Trepanier, Peter. *Not to be Opened 'till on the Lake.*<http://e-artexte.ca/23940/> Montréal,
> Qc: Peter Trepanier, 1979.
>
>
>
> Corina MacDonald
> Project Manager, e-artexte
>
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Tod Robbins
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