Art Database Research Articles

Indonesian Traditional Arts Database: Future Legal Protection Act

Indonesian traditional arts (TAs) are facing real threats. The threats include misappropriation and extinction. This reality is caused by the lack of a legal umbrella that provides legal protection for Indonesian TAs. This paper offers a legal protection system by using TA documentation stored in a database. A database built with a proper formulation can be used to protect TAs from possible threats. Related to the threat of misappropriation, a database can be used as: first, a protective tool against uses unapproved by the local community and to minimize the distribution of Intellectual Property (IP) to unauthorized parties; second, as a tool to prove the ownership of a TA and protect the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) related to the ownership of the TA in a positive way. Concerning the threat of extinction, a database can be used as a tool for long-term conservation and a source of information for research and development. Social community has recognized the organizations as an important way to keep existing value of arts and culture. The paper is to explore the importance of databases importance and to identify how database shall be recommended as the legal protection of Indonesian Traditional Arts (TAs). The Traditional Arts Database (TAsD) could be done by using the integrated technology within the RFID and web based technology.

Imaginative Rationalisation and Speculative Archiving. Thoughts about language in media art database archives.

El discurs contemporani se sol referir a l’especulació d’una manera negativa: a apostes arriscades i transaccions perilloses en economia i a afirmacions que no es poden demostrar en el llenguatge quotidià. En filosofia, l’especulació és una manera de generar coneixement quan els mètodes tradicionals arriben als límits: el seu sentit original era ‘observar’; la interpretació llatina derivava de la paraula grega per designar la teoria. Aquesta noció del terme s’oposa al seu ús predominant actual. La noció que m’estimo més ve de la meva àvia. Era una bohèmia en el sentit geogràfic, no pas d’estil de vida. Era grangera i molt pràctica. En comptes de «Haig de pensar una cosa», deia «Haig d’especular sobre això». Al mateix temps mirava al sostre, com si pogués veure i comparar mentalment diferents situacions que podia acostar o allunyar, rebobinar o avançar, examinar, canviar i reordenar amb tot detall. En imagineriar (imagineering) i preveure opcions de futur, posava a prova una línia de pensament i n’avaluava els efectes. Adoptava un enfocament iteratiu per a arribar a un cert tipus d’experiència i triar una opció en la qual pogués basar a continuació les seves accions d’una manera segura: una combinació de racionalització i pensament creatiu, comparable amb el que ara anomenem recerca-acció.

VIRTUAL HERITAGE ARCHIVES: BUILDING A CENTRALIZED AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART ARCHIVE

Abstract. This paper examines use of multi-media in the curation, presentation and promotion of rock art. It discusses the construction of a centralised Australian rock art database and explores new technologies available for looking at rock art. In 2011, Prof. Taçon Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of PERAHU (Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit) called for a national rock art database raising awareness of the importance of preserving rock art as part of Australia's valuable Indigenous heritage (Taçon, 2011). Australia has over 100,000 rock art sites, important heritage places for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and a testament to over 10,000 years of human activity, including interactions with other peoples and the environment. Many of these sites have not been documented or recorded and are threatened by natural and cultural agents. It is becoming increasingly important to develop conservation models for the protection and preservation of sites. Indigenous cultural heritage is difficult to manage on a local government level due to complex human / time / environment relationships and the importance of intangible cultural heritage (SoE SEWPAC, 2011). Currently no centralised database system exists in Australia to curate, present and promote rock art.

A "Value Ecology" Approach to the Performing Arts

In recent years, ecological thinking has been applied to a range of social, cultural and aesthetic systems, including performing arts as a living system of policy makers, producers, organisations, artists and audiences. Ecological thinking is systems-based thinking which allows us to see the performing arts as a complex and protean ecosystem; to explain how elements in this system act and interact; and to evaluate its effects on Australia’s social fabric over time. According to Gallasch, ecological thinking is “what we desperately need for the arts.” It enables us to “defeat the fragmentary and utilitarian view of the arts that dominates, to make connections, to establish overviews of the arts that can be shared and debated” (Gallasch NP). John Baylis took up these issues in "Mapping Queensland Theatre" (2009), an Arts Queensland-funded survey designed to map practices in Brisbane and in Queensland more broadly, and to provide a platform to support future policy-making. In this paper, we propose a new approach to mapping Brisbane’s and Queensland’s theatre that extends Baylis’ ‘value chain’ into a ‘value ecology’ that provides a more textured picture of players, patterns, relationships and activity levels in local performing arts.

Face images in Lower Angara rock art

The Lower Angara rock art database includes relatively complete information on 42 petroglyphic sites with 155 representations of anthropomorphic faces. The classification of these images and their chronology, assessed on various grounds, suggests that they are roughly contemporaneous and are associated with Okunev art of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (3rd – 2nd millennia BC). Having originated in the Stone Age, the tradition of depicting anthropomorphic faces was practiced by the taiga tribes of the Lower Angara until recent centuries.

How an Art Theft’s Publicity and Documentation Can Impact the Stolen Object’s Recovery Rate

This article quantifies the importance of documentation associated with a stolen work of art to its eventual recovery. The article offers an interpretation of statistical evidence related to works of art registered stolen and in some cases recovered on the Art Loss Register’s (ALR) database between 2000-2009. It utilizes the 1874 theft of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s altarpiece from the baptistery of the Cathedral of Seville to underscore how a painting’s historical importance, the substantial news coverage that surrounds its theft, and the public’s interest in the cathedral’s tragic loss facilitated its quick recovery. Although in 1874, the painting could not be registered on international stolen art databases, it is evident the amount of documentation written about the historical work and its tragic theft functioned similarly to the databases available to theft victims today.

Analysis of 11,553 art pregnancies to identify female and male factors contributing to adverse art outcome

ObjectiveTo assess what factors in the male or the female may contribute to adverse outcomes in ART, as measured as clinical pregnancy loss from a large database of 11,553 ART clinical pregnancies.DesignRetrospective analysis of data was undertaken, using regression analysis to assess which covariates independently and significantly affected clinical pregnancy loss.Materials and MethodsThe ART database of pregnancies from 1992 to 2009 was reviewed. The outcome measures: clinical pregnancy loss, blighted ovum and fetal heart rate abortions were determined.Adjustment for covariates (female age, year of treatment, ovulatory dysfunction, type of treatment) was performed.ResultsOf the 11553 ART pregnancies, clinical pregnancy loss was 2317 (16.4%).Female age and years of treatment and ovulatory dysfunction showed a statistically significant effect (P<0.001) on clinical pregnancy loss, (OR 1.24, 0.98,1.34 respectively).The type of treatment, (FET, fresh IVF/ICSI, ovulation induction and Intrauterine Insemination) showed no effect on clinical pregnancy loss.ConclusionOur data analysis suggests that none of the male infertility factors explored had any significant effect on the ART clinical pregnancy loss.Age, years of ART treatment and ovulatory dysfunction were independent and significant contributors to clinical pregnancy loss. ObjectiveTo assess what factors in the male or the female may contribute to adverse outcomes in ART, as measured as clinical pregnancy loss from a large database of 11,553 ART clinical pregnancies. To assess what factors in the male or the female may contribute to adverse outcomes in ART, as measured as clinical pregnancy loss from a large database of 11,553 ART clinical pregnancies. DesignRetrospective analysis of data was undertaken, using regression analysis to assess which covariates independently and significantly affected clinical pregnancy loss. Retrospective analysis of data was undertaken, using regression analysis to assess which covariates independently and significantly affected clinical pregnancy loss. Materials and MethodsThe ART database of pregnancies from 1992 to 2009 was reviewed. The outcome measures: clinical pregnancy loss, blighted ovum and fetal heart rate abortions were determined.Adjustment for covariates (female age, year of treatment, ovulatory dysfunction, type of treatment) was performed. The ART database of pregnancies from 1992 to 2009 was reviewed. The outcome measures: clinical pregnancy loss, blighted ovum and fetal heart rate abortions were determined. Adjustment for covariates (female age, year of treatment, ovulatory dysfunction, type of treatment) was performed. ResultsOf the 11553 ART pregnancies, clinical pregnancy loss was 2317 (16.4%).Female age and years of treatment and ovulatory dysfunction showed a statistically significant effect (P<0.001) on clinical pregnancy loss, (OR 1.24, 0.98,1.34 respectively).The type of treatment, (FET, fresh IVF/ICSI, ovulation induction and Intrauterine Insemination) showed no effect on clinical pregnancy loss. Of the 11553 ART pregnancies, clinical pregnancy loss was 2317 (16.4%). Female age and years of treatment and ovulatory dysfunction showed a statistically significant effect (P<0.001) on clinical pregnancy loss, (OR 1.24, 0.98,1.34 respectively). The type of treatment, (FET, fresh IVF/ICSI, ovulation induction and Intrauterine Insemination) showed no effect on clinical pregnancy loss. ConclusionOur data analysis suggests that none of the male infertility factors explored had any significant effect on the ART clinical pregnancy loss.Age, years of ART treatment and ovulatory dysfunction were independent and significant contributors to clinical pregnancy loss. Our data analysis suggests that none of the male infertility factors explored had any significant effect on the ART clinical pregnancy loss.

Algorithms for Social Curation: Designing and evaluating an embodied and subjectively situated visual art Interpretation and navigation system (VAINS)

VAINS, the <em>visual art Interpretation and navigation system</em>, is an interdisciplinary work in progress, an interactive website which offers repository, search and content recommendation tools for art content in an online environment. This paper will put the VAINS system into a historical curatorial context as well as explaining and analysing the VAINS project and its methodology, outlining our reasons for placing the body at the forefront of its navigation systems. The paper will also present a narrative of interaction with the tools we have created, showing their impact on a range of users and illustrating the value of embodiment in the context of online curation. VAINS, <em>visual art Interpretation</em> <em>and navigation system</em>, is an interdisciplinary work in progress, an interactive website which offers repository, search and content recommendation tools adjusted to art content in an online environment, drawing upon the Computer Fine Arts database of digital artworks. The site is a response to the expected changes in content consumption as part of the movement towards a more complex web 3.0 generation, offering a customizable and personalized art viewing experience. The VAINS system aims to be in part a text free environment, where visual experiences are interpreted through their contextual categorization and through the use of other sensual means, such as icons, sounds and textures. VAINS also deploys the embodied and situated nature of human users as core resources in its underlying computational structures, drawing upon enactivism and embodiment as core computational principals. The paper will put the VAINS system into a historical curatorial context as well as explaining and analysing the VAINS project and its methodology, outlining the reasons for placing the body at the forefront of its navigation systems. The paper will also present a narrative of interaction with the tools we have created, showing their impact on a range of users and illustrating the value of embodiment in the context of online art curation.

A column dependency-based approach for static and dynamic recovery of databases from malicious transactions

Even state of the art database protection mechanisms often fail to prevent occurrence of malicious attacks. Since in a database environment, the modifications made by one transaction may affect the execution of some of the later transactions, it leads to spreading of the damage caused by malicious (bad) transactions. Following traditional log-based recovery schemes, one can rollback (undo) the effect of all the transactions, both malicious as well as non-malicious. In such a scenario, even the unaffected transactions are also rolled back. In this paper, we propose a column dependency-based approach to identify the affected transactions which need to be compensated along with the malicious transactions. To ensure durability, committed non-malicious transactions are then re-executed in a manner that retains database consistency. We present a static recovery algorithm as well as an on-line version of the same and prove their correctness. A detailed performance evaluation of the proposed scheme with TPC-C benchmark suite is also presented.

Anti-mullerian hormone levels in patients treated with assisted reproductive techniques

OBJECTIVE: Measure anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels in sera from ART cycles to correlate with outcomes including age, oocyte and embryo numbers, and pregnancy. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: AMH was assayed in 204 sera from 166 cycles. Residual sera had been stored below -70°C until analyzed by ELISA (DSL, Webster, TX) in duplicate. The values were merged with ART database to allow comparison with outcomes. RESULTS: Assays with dynamic range of 0.01 to 15.0 ng/mL had intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation of 3.5% and 7.3%, respectively. In 35 cases, paired samples, on the average of 6 days apart (range 3 to 14 days), were assayed with one sample obtained in patients suppressed with GnRH agonist and a second obtained on day 3 to 6 of gonadotropin treatment. The values, 1.3 versus 1.0 ng/mL, respectively, did not differ (p=0.10, paired Student's t test), and the regression coefficient of 0.81 was significant (p<0.001). In further analyses performed using single samples or the average of repeat samples for 166 cases, AMH levels were related to age (p<0.001) with a regression coefficient of -0.26. In ART cycles where ova were retrieved, AMH levels were significantly (p < 0.001) related to number of ova collected, number of mature ova, and number of ova fertilized by either IVF or ICSI with regression coefficients of 0.37, 0.44, and 0.44, respectively. Considering pregnancy outcomes for initiated ART cycles, ROC analyses were performed for biochemical pregnancies and clinical pregnancies. AMH greater than 1.0 ng/mL was a significant (p<0.001) criterion for biochemical pregnancy with sensitivity of 68% and specificity of 64%, and a significant (p<0.001) criterion for clinical pregnancy with sensitivity of 70% and specificity of 63%. CONCLUSIONS: AMH levels at the time of initiation of ART cycles were found to be related to number of oocytes retrieved and fertilized, and to pregnancy outcomes suggesting a potential use in patient prospective management.

Process based inventory of isoprenoid emissions from European forests: model comparisons, current knowledge and uncertainties

Abstract. Large uncertainties exist in our knowledge of regional emissions of non-methane biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC). We address these uncertainties through a two-pronged approach by compiling a state of the art database of the emissions potentials for 80 European forest species, and by a model assessment and inter-comparison, both at the local and regional scale, under present and projected future climatic conditions. We coupled three contrasting isoprenoid models with the ecophysiological forest model GOTILWA+ to evaluate leaf and ecosystem isoprenoid emissions, build an emissions inventory for European forests, and to consider model behaviour in present climate and under projected future climate change conditions. Hourly, daily and annual isoprene emissions as simulated by the models were evaluated against flux measurements. The validation highlighted a general model capacity to capture gross fluxes but inefficiencies in capturing short term variability. A regional inventory of isoprenoid emissions for European forests was created using each of the three modelling approaches. The models agreed on an average European emissions budget of 1.03 TgC a−1 for isoprene and 0.97 TgC a−1 for monoterpenes for the period 1960–1990, which was dominated by a few species with largest aerial coverage. Species contribution to total emissions depended both on species emission potential and geographical distribution. For projected future climate conditions, however, emissions budgets proved highly model dependent, illustrating the current uncertainty associated with isoprenoid emissions responses to potential future conditions. These results suggest that current model estimates of isoprenoid emissions concur well, but future estimates are highly uncertain. We conclude that development of reliable models is highly urgent, but for the time being, future BVOC emission scenario estimates should consider results from an ensemble of available emission models.

M.A.D.: Media Art Database(s) and the Challenges of Taste, Evaluation and Appraisal

This essay seeks to delineate the possible mutual benefits that different disciplines such as art history, media studies, computer science, etc. might derive from their specific efforts at formulating requirements and strategies for the appraisal of records and data as well as scientific and other concepts related to media art in its widest sense. In this context, the author presents the M.A.D. Media Art Database project as an information system at the disposal of media art and its history and theory, and as a network interface between archived material and knowledge. With its bottom-up structure, the M.A.D. database is proposed as a decisive motive force in assembling potent aggregates of knowledge and expertise.

Scientific and Medical Art Database (SMART Imagebase)2009133Scientific and Medical Art Database (SMART Imagebase). Kennesaw, GA: Nucleus Medical Art and EBSCOhost 1999. Gratis for non‐commercial use and downloads Last visited November 2008 URL: http://ebsco.smartimagebase.com/smartindex.php?

Scientific and Medical Art Database (SMART Imagebase)2009133<i>Scientific and Medical Art Database (SMART Imagebase)</i>. Kennesaw, GA: Nucleus Medical Art and EBSCOhost 1999. Gratis for non‐commercial use and downloads Last visited November 2008 URL: http://ebsco.smartimagebase.com/smartindex.php?

Metadata of Art and Architecture Research Databases: The Value of Abstracts and Index Terms to Academics, Librarians, and Museum Professionals

ABSTRACT Against a backdrop of increasing access to full text and the perceived success of Web search engines, academic disciplines with highly specialized, if not esoteric, nomenclature remain in need of specially crafted metadata. Art history and the study of architecture represent two such disciplines. Historically, field-specific research databases have maintained canons of citations complemented with descriptive abstracting and precise indexing. Surveys of art and architectural historians identify the value of abstracting and indexing to scholarly research. The perceived importance indicates a need to integrate discipline-specific abstracts and vocabularies into the evolving Web-based infrastructure for searching of scholarly literature and to enable the continued production of such metadata.

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

The Chinese free antiretroviral treatment program: challenges and responses

To respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in China, the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention established the Division of Treatment and Care in late 2001. The pilot for the National Free ART Program began in Henan Province in 2002, and the program fully began in 2003. Treatment efforts initially focused on patients infected through illicit blood and plasma donation in the mid-1990s and subsequently expanded to include HIV-infected injection drug users, commercial sex workers, pregnant women, and children. The National Free ART Database was established in late 2004, and includes data on current patients and those treated before 2004. Over 31 000 adult and pediatric patients have been treated thus far. Challenges for the program include integration of drug treatment services with ART, an under-resourced health care system, co-infections, stigma, discrimination, drug resistance, and procurement of second-line ART. The merging of national treatment and care, epidemiologic, and drug resistance databases will be critical for a better understanding of the epidemic, for earlier identification of patients requiring ART, and for improved patient follow-up. The Free ART Program has made considerable progress in providing the necessary care and treatment for HIV-infected people in China and has strong government support for continued improvement and expansion.

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

Mexican Art and Architecture Databases: Needs, Achievements, Problems

Mexico has played an important role in art and architecture since the prehispanic period, and has contributed not only to the spread of Mexican culture but also to the enrichment of the art world in general. But Mexican art and architecture have been poorly covered by indexes and abstracts, possibly because many of the relevant periodicals have been short-lived, or because of the use of the Spanish language, or due to intermittent financial resources. Nevertheless creators of bibliographical tools such as databases in Mexico are convinced of their country’s cultural richness, and are committed to spreading information in this subject area, whatever difficulties may be encountered.

Virtual PIXE and RBS laboratory

An interactive software package for a complete simulation of Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Backscattering Spectra (BS) is being developed. The user is in a position to define all experimental parameters such as incident ions (protons, deuterons or He ions), their energy, excitation and detection geometry, detector parameters and filters as well as sample composition and thicknesses of a number of layers. This is all done through an easy to operate interactive user interface. Simulated PIXE and RBS spectra are immediately displayed on the screen and can be saved either as bitmaps and/or files suitable for further processing. Each output comes with a complete set of experimental parameters, absolute and relative line intensities (including all major K and L lines), peak to background ratio and detection limits for all elements of interest.The program has also a number of utility routines to calculate various fundamental parameters such as photon cross sections, K and L shell ionization and production cross sections, energy loss, and detector efficiency. All these routines use the state-of-the art data base sources.The program operates on a personal computer under the MS Windows operating system. The simulation is fast and the program is easy to operate. The package will be useful in many ways. Firstly, it will be an excellent teaching tool for researchers/students without experience with PIXE/RBS. Secondly, it will be of immense help in planning and optimizing PIXE and/or RBS experiments. The user can ‘run’ a simulated experiment for any sample/experimental parameters and test various settings/scenarios to achieve optimal results without actually carrying out the experiment, thereby saving a lot of expensive machine time that would otherwise have been spent on trial and error experiments.

Art and architecture databases on the Internet

Only recently have significant art and architecture Internet resources been made available. As a reference librarian in a fine arts library, I try to keep track of important resources for my patrons. Managing Internet resources is a challenge: Internet sites with images require high‐end computers and connections, and evaluating the quality of Internet resources is often more difficult and time‐consuming than evaluating print sources. Simply identifying potentially valuable resources amid all the flashy insubstantiality on the Internet is enervating.