CLD Online Tutorial

Section 4:

Do It Yourself

BOPCRIS

Tate

TNAUK

Walsall Centre

Tate: hints & tips

How did you get on? You’ll find some points below to help you see if you included all the data available and put it in the correct fields.

Tate is a family of galleries and operates on four sites in different parts of Britain.

• There should be a collection level description for the Tate Galleries, with each individual gallery listed as a sub-collection.
• Each individual gallery has its own collection level description, with the Tate Galleries listed as the super-collection and the other three galleries listed as associated collections
• Tate St Ives collection level description lists Barbara Hepworth museum as a sub-collection. The Museum has its own collection level description and lists Tate St Ives as the super-collection
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The galleries house the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century for the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art.

• Concept: British art, modern art, Turner
• The keywords or subject descriptors listed under CONCEPT should be selected from a recognised schema - best practice is Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Level 1. The schema that is being used should be acknowledged.
• Other keywords may be found in other parts of the description
• Concept: Turner, JMW - Where a name is included it should be input in the correct form
• Strength: British Art (or this could be taken from the Conspectus Headings)
• Contents date range: 1500 this refers to the range of dates of creation of the items in the collection - in this case paintings from the sixteenth century)

The original Tate Gallery opened in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. It was built on the site of Millbank Prison, demolished in 1892, and was designed to house the collection of nineteenth century painting and sculpture given to the nation by Sir Henry Tate, together with some British paintings transferred from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Its responsibilities were specifically for modern British art, then defined as artists born after 1790.
In 1917, following a bequest of modern paintings from the collection of Sir Hugh Lane, the gallery was formally constituted as the National Gallery of Modern Foreign Art. At the same time its responsibilities for British art were extended to artists born before 1790. A separate Board of Trustees was set up for the Tate Gallery which, until that time, had been entirely controlled by the Trustees of the National Gallery.

• Custodial history. Text could be edited to shorten.
• Concept: Tate, Sir Henry: Lane, Sir Hugh; National Gallery of British Art

The National Gallery and Tate gallery Act (1954) came into force in 1955, effecting the legal separation of the two galleries and establishing the Tate as an independent institution.

• Legal Status
• Owner

Tate Britain: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Tel: 020 7887 8000 Open daily between 10.00 and 17.50

• Location details: in collection level description for this gallery.

Tate Modern: Bankside, London SE1 9TG Tel: 020 7887 8000 Open Sundays to Thursdays 10.00 to 18.00, Fridays and Saturdays 10.00 to 22.00

• Location details: in collection level description for this gallery.

Tate Liverpool: Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB Tel: 0151 702 7400
Email: liverpoolinfor@tate.org.uk Open Tuesdays to Sundays 10.00 to 17.50, closed Mondays except Bank Holiday Mondays

• Location details: in collection level description for this gallery.

Tate St Ives: Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1TG Tel: 01736 796226
Email: information@tate.org.uk Open March to October every day from 10.00 to 17.30 and November to February from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 16.30. This gallery has ramped access, adapted toilet, and BSL communicators for the deaf on request. Tate St Ives also includes the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, Barnoon Hill, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1AD Tel: 01736 796226 Opening hours as Tate St Ives

• Location details: in collection level description for this gallery.

Each of the four sites also run exhibitions using both Tate’s own holdings and loans from private and public collections around the world. One such exhibition is Constable to Delacroix: British art and the French Romantics, running from 5 February – 11 May 2003

• Exhibitions are a type of collection, so this exhibition could have its own collection level description, as a sub-collection of the Tate Galleries description.
• Collection type: Collection.Museum.Image.Working
• Subjects: Constable, Delacroix, British art, French Romantics
• Custodial history: Tate’s own holdings and loans from private and public collections around the world

Warning: Care is needed if you decide to include records for exhibitions in a publicly accessible collection descriptions database. Someone accessing the database and finding a record for an exhibition may not notice the date of the exhibition - and they may turn up expecting that exhibition to be on. So there is a need for the exhibition record to be modified in some way once the exhibition is over. This could be by:

• Deleting the record immediately the exhibition finishes.
• Archiving the record to another database that is not publicly accessible.
• Modifying the record (e.g. by adding a flag, or a setting in a locally defined field) so that it is no longer publicly accessible.

Your decision on this will depend on the potential use you have for the record once the exhibition is over. It may provide you with a useful record of past exhibitions, especially if it contains information you may require in the future, which case you would choose between the second and third options. Equally, you may decide that you have no use for the record once the exhibition is over, in which case you would follow option 1. Whichever choice you make, you will need to record your policy and the processes to be taken, and who is responsible for the actions to be taken.

Tate is also developing a number of online resources. Tate Collection is an online database of digital images of 50,000 works from the Tate’s holdings. Turner: Reflections of Sea and Light is an online resource which includes digital images of Turner’s work. Matisse and Picasso I-Map is an online resource being developed for visually impaired people.

• Further collection level descriptions should be created for the three online databases listed above
• Tate Collection – collection type: Collection.Museum.Image
• Tate Collection – available media
• Matisse and Picasso – collection type: Collection.Museum.Image.InteractiveResource
• Location, Collection URL: URL for the resource itself