Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives challenges of the new media Jasenka Ferber Bogdan Fine Arts Archives Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Heritage Culture and Digital Humanities Conference Osijek, Croatia May/19-20/2017

Greetings from Osijek! Artists’ correspondence, Fine Arts Archives Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Greetings from Osijek! Artists’ correspondence, Fine Arts Archives

Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Digital art history “…the digitizing, organizing, and devising of metadata are always acts of interpretation, the product of a set of decisions that carry interpretative inflection: they are not neutral or value-free, and each privileges one aspect of a digital artifact at the expense of others…“ Johanna Drucker, “Is There a ‘Digital’ Art History?”  Visual Resources 29, 1–2, 2013

Digital Collection of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Digital Collection of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts dizbi.hazu.hr Joint project of several Croatian Academy units Free access and download, search availability across all units Versatile materials – books, exhibition catalogues, photographs, art objects, documentation, manuscripts etc. Complex metadata – standardized authority names, subject terms Record count: 26.879 Metadata: 627.009 Number of files: 33.870 Stored: 266.49 GB 24.003 items available through Europeana.

Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media http://dizbi.hazu.hr

Digitization of Fine Arts Archives Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Digitization of Fine Arts Archives Started in 2008 – the earliest and rare catalogues as the base for development of whole digitised collection One of the several founder units of Digital collection in 2009 Croatian and foreign exhibition catalogs, personal photographs, photographs of art objects and exhibitions Photographs http://dizbi.hazu.hr/object/27051

Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Exhibition catalogs http://dizbi.hazu.hr/?object=list&find=arhiv+za+likovne+umjetnosti&mr%5B94226%5D=a

Fine Arts Archives’ first virtual exhibition Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Fine Arts Archives’ first virtual exhibition http://dizbi.hazu.hr/picasso/

Ullrich Salon archives Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Ullrich Salon archives First art salon in Zagreb 1898. - glassware shop, framing artwork gallery - 1909./1910. -1930. 1926. - other location 1947. - nationalized Ulrich gallery closed in 2013. Archival holdings: 3 exhibition register books 2 inventory books (14458 sales records) 2 commission sales books Numerous books of payments Correspondence with artists and buyers (ca. 1300) – MS Excel Exhibition catalogs (35 already on the portal)

Primary goals of the digitization project Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Primary goals of the digitization project Preservation of fragile archival material Digital presentation of integral books Enrichment of original documents with metadata - additional research Expansion of access to scholars who cannot visit the archives Handwritten exhibition register book 1910 - 1927

Phases / challenges Digitization Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Phases / challenges Digitization Transcription – decipher the handwriting, abbreviations Filling in missing information from other sources Organization and consistency of complex data Authors index Miroslav Kraljević – solo exhibition 1912

Exhibitions – data organization Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Exhibitions – data organization

Authority names Geographical names persons organizations Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Art object - data organization Authority names Geographical names persons organizations Subject terms Secular themes Portrait Panorama, seascape, landscape Interior Still life Nude Religious themes Mythological themes Historical themes Artist – buyer link

Mila Wod - solo exhibition, Salon Ullrich, 1918 Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Mila Wod - solo exhibition, Salon Ullrich, 1918 Exhibition catalog http://dizbi.hazu.hr/object/view/Dmnzcrrzzm Man and Destiny wood, 37 cm

Sculpture sold to art collector Dr. Ivo Tartaglia, Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Sculpture sold to art collector Dr. Ivo Tartaglia, Miss Žyborska and Salon Ullrich for 250 K

Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Art object - metadata

Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Virtual exhibition Introducing Salon Ullrich to broader cultural audience Presenting various archival holdings (stock books, correspondence, photographs, catalogs) Attracting the attention of national and international researchers Increasing the possibility of further financing the digitization project

Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Final results Analytic and synthetic insights into complex interrelations between artists, art dealers and art collectors – data analysis and visualization as research tools Contribution to the research of provenance (history of ownership) and catalogue raisonné (complete list of artworks) of Croatian and European artists Emphasis on the foundational role of the Ullrich salon in the forming of national art market, enabling its positioning in an international context Contribution to the development of the next step in Croatian art history – from digitizing to digital

Useful texts, sites, blogs… Digitization of the Ullrich Salon archives - challenges of the new media Useful texts, sites, blogs… Digital art history in theory J. Drucker, Is There a Digital Art History?, Visual Resources: An international Journal of Documentation, 29, 1-2, 2013 P. B. Jaskot, Review of Debates in the Digital Humanities, Visual Resources 29, 1-2, 2013 P. Fletcher, Reflections on Digital Art History, CAA Reviews, 2015 - http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2726#.WRw2HNR97Gg M. Schich, Figuring out Art History, DAH Journal, 2, 2016 Dealer stockbooks at Getty Research Institute portal http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/ http://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/stockbooks/servlet.starweb?path=stockbooks/stockbooks.web Blogs M. Baca, A. Helmreich, Introducing Three Digital Art History Case Studies - http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/dah_baca_helmreich/ R. Cuadra, A. Penot, The Goupil Stock Books Project - http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/dah_cuadra_penot/