blog: Renibot
There is to be an exhibition in February 2008 at the Dulwich Gallery based on teh St.Sebastians of Guido Reni.
This is the first upcoming exhibition since I started exploring here with a LGBT frame of reference, so as good a topic for a knowbot as any other.
A knowbot is a thing, a schema, an ontology, a seven types of semantics, which helps us to think in a structured way about how to add value to a product. A produce is an entity such as an exhibtion, a video, dvd, a museum or gallery, into which one has put some effort or resource, and about which one decides one wants to know more than the little card next to the picture. The future idea is that rfid, rss, will allow for the capture of the knowledge of all participants, for the moment however, we want simply to go beyond the audio-guide or the booklet.
And so with Reni, for we have already the catalogue and that gives us quite a lot.
But for this step, the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square. It has a web site, there are computers in the area near the cafe, so you can start with that, and there is a paper map. Artists A-Z gives us Reni. The pictures give us room numbers, the map shows the rooms. The layout is based on time, by centuries, which is interesting as everything seems to hang on boundaries. The galleries within time are organised by modern country, which is interesting as most of these didn't exist in the time. So when the King of Poland commissions something, is this Italian?
The zoom function is really interesting as it enables you to see detail better even than the hang on the wall.
And I begin to notice something, musical instruments.
Then I notice something more, old and young men in groups.
Now, what is known about this?
Renibot JSTOR
First check of the new Renibot using wifi to JSTOR and all works, which is wonderful.
Search Guido Reni, and it is basically chain indexing. More than a thousand hits. Now add music, and down to 300, but the first few in time frequency aren't particularly high hitting, suspect one bibliographic entry
Of course, most recent isn't a particularly useful category on JSTOR anyhow.
But even with the relevance tag, it is not obvious how we are adding value, or how much further work we have to do. Compare with a card catalogue :)
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames
Helen's abduction
First piece of new evidence, from the NAL catalogue, grep Reni. Colantuono, Anthony. Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen. The politics and rhetoric of painting in 17th century Europe. CAP, 1997.
Gives some good Barberini threads. Links Urban 8 and Franscesco. 300 pages so some work to be done. bibl., index.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames
Reni NAL Ingenta Caliber
The Renibot story enables us to progress the matter of methods.
Reading Colantuono I find a reference to erotics of absolutism in reflections.
NAL has reflections record with a pointer to ingenta.
spend some time messing around, to find that actually ingenta doesn't take reflections any more
spend a lot more time messing around, this time with a NAL person and we find caliber, and that some records, including this one, are not available to NAL.
It is also on JSTOR, so I can either ask for paper, or use that elsewhere.
This is the detail of digital methods at the moment
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames
Dulwic
Well, the exhibition is open, and they haven't made much of it, the catalogue actually raises much more.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames
batoni
First renibot
a reference at the batoni exhibition at the national gallery to reni as an influence
gathering all the other fagtags would be quite a lot of work
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames