Contemporary Art As Reflected By the Press: Digitalisation and Indexing the Press Clippings Collection From 1950 to 2013

• Applicant: Manfred Rothenberger
• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 261106549

The Collection of the Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg (founded 1967) ¿ an information and documentation centre for contemporary art ¿ focuses on material about art after 1945. The material consists mainly of publications, printed material, invitation cards and documentation about artists as well as an extensive collection of press clippings. The inventory may be examined by specialists and the informed public for research and information purposes in a reference library on approximately 1,200 linear meters of archive.In the Institute's list of tasks, the expansion and indexing of the press cuttings collection for national and international art plays a prominent role, because these cuttings (currently about 190,000) constitute a unique and extraordinary concentration of source material, which makes it possible to analyse the reception of contemporary art as it is reflected in the press over a period of more than 60 years.The goal is now to digitally index this rich pool of information about contemporary art and by putting it online, to make the Institute archive a sustainable research library. By digitalising and indexing it in a database, the dense, complex connections of information in the network, as reflected in the reviews of current art, may be accessed in a useful fashion, in order to offer a comprehensive research tool with multiple applications.

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Major Instrumentation: Workflow-Software (32.059 Euro) und Clipping-Software (19.921 Euro)