Nazi-Era Provenance Metadata and Linked Art Models
By: Melanie Zerah
The purpose of my project is to examine the metadata available for Nazi-era Provenance paintings within The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Provenance Research Collection and determine if there is sufficient provenance information to serialize these objects Linked Art's Provenance modeling. The parameters for this model type can be found here; in short, the model deals mainly with provenance "activities" or "events." These elements will relay information such as custody transfers, acquisition activity, and object rediscovery. Linked Art's Provenance modeling is an interesting and exciting inatitve by the community of information professionals who are developing it, as it is a metadata standardization model that has the potential to aid in interoperablity among institutions' data infrastructures.