1. Iowa Gallery: a migration story
Art Collections Panel Discussion
Mark F. Anderson
CONTENTdm Midwest
IUPUI – 4/29/08

2. Iowa Gallery Umbrella University of Iowa Museum of Art
School of Art Graduate Archive
The Daily Palette

3. or, UISAAHGAC

4. Iowa Gallery Umbrella University of Iowa Museum of Art
School of Art Graduate Archive
The Daily Palette

5. UIMA project timeline Aug 2006: Initial planning meeting
Oct 2006: Project plan finalized
Mar 2007: Everything falls apart
April 2007: Back on track
Nov 2007: Collection launched with Iowa Gallery
May 2008: Collection update

6. “I’m pretty sure that Jackson Pollock mural wasn’t created during the Ming Dynasty.”

7. Challenges in migration
Excel stuff:
Hidden □ line break □ characters
Accession numbers as integers
Ex became
stayed

8. “Exceptional” items
With a legacy collection, you never know what you’ll find: ≠

9. Misrepresenting?

10. Legacy terms AAT Wheelthrown stoneware Wheel-thrown stoneware
Etc.
 stoneware (pottery)

11. Additional campus art collections

12. Iowa Gallery Iowa Gallery [digital.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery]
Univ. of Iowa Museum of Art [digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uima]
Graduate Art Archive [digital.lib.uiowa.edu/gradart]
Daily Palette [digital.lib.uiowa.edu/dp]