With funding from the Research in Information Technology Program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, two community design meetings for conservation documentation were held in 2009, the first in early March at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, primarily for North American participants, the second in early April at the National Gallery, London, primarily for UK and European participants.

Core Team

The Mellon Foundation’s grant for this community design process was made in December 2008 to the Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure at Yale University, for which Meg Bellinger is the director. Ken Hamma was the Project Manager, having direct responsibility for leading the work and delivering the requirements document.

Angela Spinazze facilitated and documented the community design meetings, leveraging her work with the CollectionSpace meetings organized by the Museum of the Moving Image under another grant from the Research in Information Technology Program of the Mellon Foundation.

Chuck Patch (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Sam Quigley (Art Institute of Chicago), Joe Padfield (National Gallery, London), Koven Smith (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), and Sam Wood (British Museum) completed the core team that was responsible for managing the design meetings and assisting with their documentation.

Murtha Baca (Getty Research Institute) and Franziska Frey (Rochester Institute of Technology), leading experts in data standards, recorded data issues that arose in the design meetings and provided direction for data and vocabulary standards in the requirements document.