1. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own The YourPaintings Website: Strategies for cataloguing oil paintings for web users Aimee Blackledge September 2009

2. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Introduction to the YourPaintings website Data enhancement and the online user Issues for cataloguing oil paintings What functions could a user-interface offer?

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5. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Online Users: online users as museum visitors Browsers Followers Searchers Researchers

6. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Development of Visitor Engagement Browsers Followers Followers Searchers Searchers Researchers

7. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Data Enhancement Artist name Date of birth-date of death Title Date of execution Medium Dimensions Collection name Collection Accession Number + Period + Artistic style or movement + Subject matter

8. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own High Level Subject Categories – people – places – natural world – society – religion & faith – literature & mythology – objects – historical events – activities – abstract forms

9. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Subject Facets and Categories authorities

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14. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Copies Function Texture Scale Subject Matter Cataloguing oil paintings: Challenges for cataloguers and users

15. Collins, William, The Snyders Family (after Anthony Van Dyck). Oil on board, 27.1 x 21.9 cm. Anthony Van Dyck, Family Portrait (possibly Jan Wildens and Family), 1621. The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Copies

16. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Function Henry Scott Tuke, The Message, 1890. Oil on canvas, 100x 89.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery. Henry Scott Tuke, Study for The Message (Mrs Fouracre), 1890. Oil on canvas, 28 x 20 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.

17. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Textures Michael Finn, Untitled, 1991. Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 91.5 cm., Falmouth Art Gallery.

18. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Painting Effects John Marton, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Oil on canvas, 119 x 170 cm. Scarborough Museums and Art Gallery.

19. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Cranach, Lucas the elder (1472–1553) Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1532). Courtesy of Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries. Scale

20. YourPaintings Discover the Paintings You Own Subject matter Delacroix, Eugène (attributed to), 1798-1863, Madame Simon. Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 48.2.

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