Hostname: page-component-cb9f654ff-pvkqz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-08-25T11:30:25.315Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The image processing and database system in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: an integrated system for art research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Hiroyuki Hatano
Hiroyuki Hatano*
Affiliation:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Get access

Abstract

In Japan, art museums have created databases for management, educational and promotional purposes, rather than for research. At the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, a group consisting of a librarian, three curators, and a systems specialist, embarked in 1984 on a four year project to assemble and test a system which, utilising machine-readable thesauri and classification systems developed in Western countries, will, it is hoped, facilitate research into Western art.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 1996 , pp. 18 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1996

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1. Hatano, Hiroyuki. ‘Storage and retrieval of image information: applications in art, pt 1-2’. Journal of Japan Indexers Association, vol. 11 no. 4, 1987, p.21–29, vol. 12 no. 1, 1988, p.1–11. (Text in Japanese).Google Scholar
2. Hatano, Hiroyuki. The world of visual documentation. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1993. (Text in Japanese).Google Scholar
3. Marburger Index. Photographic documentation of art in Germany. [Microfiche] Munich: K. G. Saur, 1976-.Google Scholar
4. Van der Wateren, Jan. ‘Some issues in data management in museums and libraries: Experiences in the Victoria & Albert Museum.’ The Bulletin of Japan Art Documentation Society, vol. 3, 1994, p.3–11. (Text in Japanese).Google Scholar
5. Hatano, Hiroyuki. ‘Art information systems in France.’ Humanities and Information Processing, vol. 4, 1994, p.52–56. (Text in Japanese).Google Scholar
6. Koshikawa, Michiaki. ‘Pictorial program in the Chapter Hall of the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice’. Bijutushi: Journal of the Japan Art History Society, vol. 42 no. 2, 1993, p.249–263. (Text in Japanese).Google Scholar
7. Waal, H. van de. Iconclass: An Iconographie classification system, completed and edited by Couprie, L. D.. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1981-85, 17 vols.Google Scholar
8. For example, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties and Yamato Bunkakan Museum.Google Scholar
9. Gordon, Catherine. ‘Dealing with variable truth: The Witt Computer Index’. Computers and the History of Art, vol. 2 no. 1, 1991, p.21–27.Google Scholar
10. Leroy-Beaulieu, Sabine. ‘Base de données documentaires en histoire de l’art au Ministère de la culture: réalités et perspectives’. Documentaliste, vol. 24 nos. 4-5, juillet-octobre 1987, p.167–176.Google Scholar
11. Garnier, François. Thésaurus iconographique: Système descriptif des représentations. Paris: Le Léopard d’or, 1984, 239 p.Google Scholar
12. Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Second ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 5 vols.Google Scholar
13. Seminaire NARCISSE: Actes. Coordination de Manuela Mendoca et al. Arquivos Nacionais/Torre Do Tombo, Lisboa 1993. Musée d’Orsay, Palais du Louvre, 25-26 november 1993.Google Scholar
14. Saunders, David and Cupitt, Johan. ‘Image processing at the National Gallery: the VASARI Project’. National Gallery Technical Bulletin, vol. 14, 1993, p.72–85.Google Scholar
15. Bower, James M. Union list of artist names. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994. 4 vols.Google Scholar
16. Malraux, André. Museum without walls. London: Seeker & Warburg, 1967, p.111.Google Scholar
17. Flugschriften des frühen 16. Jahrhunders. [Microfiche] Leiden: IDC.Google Scholar
18. Courtauld Institute of Art, The Witt Library, pt. 1-4. [Microfiche] Surrey: Emmett Publishing.Google Scholar