The document discusses the roles and responsibilities involved in creating an online collection catalogue for the J. Paul Getty Museum's European Paintings collection. It outlines how curatorial, publications, collection information, and new media teams each have distinct tasks related to content selection, data management, digital assets, and website design/functionality. Challenges include securing funding, facilitating collaboration between departments, project management, and ensuring sustainability and scalability over time as the catalogue is expanded.

1. From Print to Digital: The Economics of Creating an
Online Catalogue
J. Paul Getty Museum
European Paintings Online Collection Catalogue
Erin Coburn
Head of Collection Information & Access
J. Paul Getty Museum

2. Online Collection Catalogue, What’s the Big Deal??

9. How do you pull this off??
New Roles and Responsibilities
Canal Lock under Construction
Unknown
American, Panama, 1849 - 1857
Daguerreotype
5 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.
84.XT.1581.4

10. Roles and Responsibilities: Curatorial ~ Content, Requirements
Direction, Selection Criteria, Image
Quality Control
New Documentation and Scholarly Essays
Research & Fact Checking
Data Entry & Data Analysis

11. Roles and Responsibilities: Publications ~ Editorial
Editing Scholarly Narratives
Setting Schedules and Deliverables
Securing Comparative Images
Design and Layout

12. Roles and Responsibilities: Collection Information ~ Data Management,
Digital Publishing, Architecture
Data Mapping, Dataset, Metadata,
Creating Reports, Analyzing Data
Digital Assets and Resources
Application of Standards and Best
Practices
Systems, Information Architecture
Programming: Scripting, Refresh

14. Roles and Responsibilities: New Media-Web Team ~ Presentation and
Integration
Interface Design, Graphics
Functionality, Navigation
Application Development,
Programmers/Developers

15. Issues and Challenges
Funding and Resources: Just
because it’s digital doesn’t mean Unchartered Territory: Difficult
it’s cheaper to advocate, articulate and
execute
Collaboration: Introduction
of new departments and skill Project Management: Essential
sets
Sustainability and Scalability:
Support: Whose Priority Is It?
Building a Program of Work
Sailboat on the Sea
Théodore Géricault
French, about 1818 - 1819
Blue and brown washes, white gouache over touches of black chalk on dark tan paper
6 x 9 3/4 in.
86.GG.679

16. August Sander
André Kertész
Clock of the Académie Française, Paris Carnival Crowd
American, Paris, negative 1932, print 1950s German, about 1930
Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print