Project Title – Project Subtitle

Data Management Plan

Project Description

Describe the project, its topic, and its technical requirements. This should be a short summary of the technical aspects of the project.

Our project highlights many different sculptures and antiques that depict the Gorgonian Medusa historically from Greek Mythology. This includes many different eras, from 600 BCE, to the 20th Century. The idea of this topic is to allow people to see how Medusa is depicted by people through their work, whether it may be evil, or beautiful. This collection is made and hosted using Github, which is a platform that allows people to create, collect, and share data. Mainly using CollectionBuilder, a template through Github that uses collected metadata to build a site that can be customized to display our data.

Roles and Responsibilities

List project partners and explain how data management responsibilities were coordinated across partners.

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Anticipated Data

Briefly describe what your data is and how it was collected. This should include your images, metadata, and repository contents.

Our data is made up of images of sculptures that depict the beheading of Medusa. These images were mainly found via online Museum websites and public domain archives. The metadata was also obtained from these websites. Our metadata fields include regular elements, such as the date, author, and title, as well as two custom metadata fields categorizing the objects by “Materials” and “Sculpture Type”. The repository contains roughly 13 megabytes of data in total, which can mostly be attributed to the images and pre-written code by GitHub. Such data was first recorded in Google Sheets and then exported for use on GitHub.

In the table below, group your items by file type, then sum up the # of items, the size in MB, and data sources for each grouping.

Item Description File Type Size (in MB) # of Items License(s) Sources
Images .jpg / .jpeg 8.04 27 Public Domain, Unlimited Re-Use, Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, Copyrighted (Educational Use Permitted), Available for educational use, Attribution 4.0 International, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Imported Met Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Picryl, Digital Public Library of America, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Europeana, Art Institute of Chicago. Getty, Yale University Art Gallery, JSTOR (Journal Storage), Statens Historiska Museer, Newfields

State what specialized tools, software, and/or code are needed to access or manipulate the data and how they can be accessed. What does your CollectionBuilder site need to run?

Documentation and Metadata

This data is easily accessible on our GitHub website for public consumption and reuse. Some metadata can be found on the “Data” tab of our website, whereas both images and all of the metadata can be found in the “Browse” section. Such data can be downloaded quickly via the use of our Data Dictionary in either Excel or CSV format.

Storage and Backup

Due to having extensive amounts of images and data, we have to store it in a place that is accessible and secure. Our metadata is collected and put into google sheets, while files like the csv./metadata and images are stored in a google drive. The repository is stored in Github. Everything that includes the actual data is stored and has backups, along with links to where the images are sourced in case of dire emergency.

Data Sharing

Our data was found using many different galleries, archives, and museums. Since they were found in those, they can be found through things like the Smithsonian, but also our CollectionBuilder. Since all the images we display in our CollectionBuilder are found through the Public Domain, they can be easily reused and downloaded following links on our page that take them to the original website. There it can be downloaded.

Period of Data Retention

Each component of data in this project will continue to exist as long as Google Drive and Github exist. Since these components are stored in a public repository and a storage system using cloud, there will most likely not be any intentions of removing them.

Licensing and Ethical Issues

All items used in our collection are a part of the Public Domain and can be downloaded and shared freely. Though, if there are any concerns, we have links for each item directed to a Creative Commons / Copyright website explaining what law they fall under.

Appendix: Data Dictionary

field definition example
objectid Noclamenture for each distinct object that medusa001 , medusa002 , etc.
filename Naming scheme that distinguishes objects by the category of artwork or subject with its associated date of creation medusa_charm_1870.jpg
title The original title of the artwork bestowed to the object by its creator or its modern purveyor (Museums, owners of private collections, etc.) Head of Medusa
creator The creator of the object, represented by name, or expressed as “Unknown” if the creator’s identity has been lost to time Antonio Canova
date Date attributed to the artwork’s creation; some such dates are rough approximations due to the fact that 1806
description A short, detailed account of what the artwork depicts, clarifying the subject, method of creation, or materials Cameo carving of Medusa’s decapitated head surrounded by the symbols of Mercury’s caduceus.
source The public or private institution each object, represented by a link to the site that displays images and metadata of each object https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/204758
format The type of image format used for images of each object image/jpg
language The original language of the website that contains images and metadata of each object eng
rights The categorization of an object’s status pertaining to reuse Public domain
rightsstatement A link to a website that explains in which ways the object can be legally reused https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
materials The materials used to create the object Marble
subcategory The artistic subcategory that the object belongs to based on the method and medium of creation Metalwork