Cataloguing Cultural Objects

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: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO) is a published manual for describing, documenting, and cataloging cultural works and their visual surrogates. The primary focus of CCO is art and architecture, including but not limited to paintings, sculpture, prints, manuscripts, photographs, built works, installations, and other visual media. CCO also covers many other types of cultural works, including archaeological sites, artifacts, and functional objects from the realm of material culture.


CCO is currently available as a print publication from the American Library Association. Excerpts from the print publication are freely available online. The complete CCO publication will be available online in July 2011.

CCO is included as a data content standard in the NISO A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections.


BUILT WORKS/STRUCTURES

Frédéric Vincent, Stonehenge, Wiltshire., March 2004 used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/


DECORATIVE ARTS/UTILITARIAN OBJECTS

Worcester Royal Porcelain Company, Aesthetic teapot, 1881-1882. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Photography: Graham Haber, 2009

MANUSCRIPTS

Unknown artist, Samson and the Lion, about 1415, (detail) Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with brown calfskin, Leaf: 42 x 29.6 cm (16 9/16 x 11 5/8 in.) Paris, France, Europe. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 63, fol. 26v [96.MR.17.26v]


PAINTINGS

Édouard Manet, French, 1832-1883, Fishing Date 1861-63, Oil on canvas, transferred from the original canvas, 30 1/4 x 48 1/2 in. (76.8 x 123.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, 1957 (57.10) Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art [Reproduction of any kind is prohibited without express written permission in advance from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

TIME-BASED WORKS

Pascal Dombis, Instalation view of Irrationnal Geometrics 2008 used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

PHOTOGRAPHS

Gertrude Käsebier, Portrait of Auguste Rodin, 1905, Gum bichromate print. Princeton University Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Mina Turner x1976-338 photo: Bruce M. White
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS

Attributed to the Master of the Strache Altarpiece, Wolfgang Katzheimer the Elder

View of a Walled City in a River Landscape, about 1490, Brown ink, colored washes, gouache with black chalk underdrawing. 7.3 x 13.5 cm (2 7/8 x 5 5/16 in.) Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 89.GG.12

SCULPTURE

Chinese, Eastern Han dynasty, A.D. 25–220, Massive green-glazed horse, Red earthenware with green glaze, h. 139.7 cm., l. 119.0 cm., w. 34.0 cm. Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund, 1997-32. photo: Bruce M. White


GRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION

Michael Maier, Emblem with the Four Elements from Micheal Maier’s Viatorum, 1618 image courtesy Princeton University Department of Art and Archeology, Visual Resources

DIGITAL ART


Mona Leo, Comparison of Leonardo da Vinci’s self-portrait and his Mona Lisa, based on speculation by Dr. Lillian F. Schwartz of Bell Labs, 13 April 2008 used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/