Product Ideas

I propose that any links included in the note fields in CAT "open in a new tab" to avoid disrupting the user's workflow.

In the publication notes on the PD, it would be useful to have the ability to include links to external publication sources when the full content is not available on the platform. Providing a proper hyperlink in the PD would allow users to directly access the external publication.

Currently, you cannot search by translated title in the PD. It would be extremely helpful if you could since, in some instances, the translated title field has the English title of the exhibition which our users are more likely to search by. It would also be helpful to expand the search capabilities of the original title field in the PD. Right now, it seems that only Latin-script alphabet languages will populate search results (and even then there seems to be issues with diacritics), but it would be great if we could expand the search to include languages with other alphabets/characters such as Japanese and Russian. An example of this issue is the Bearden exhibition ブラックアーチスト　ロマー・ベアデン展 / Black Artist: Romare Bearden (exhibition ID 65319). Right now we have the English in the original title field because of this searchability issue, but ideally we would be able to move it to the correct field (the translated title field) without making it undiscoverable using the search feature in the public display.

Currently publications are being sorted alphabetically on a letter-by-letter basis regardless of when a word ends. We would like this changed to a word-by-word system that takes whole words into account when sorting. For example, the following articles are in this order in the bibliographic index: "Art in New York: Uptown." Time 84, no. 17 (October 23, 1964), pp. sec. NY, p. 5. "Artist Bearden to Talk on U.S. Negro Painters." Atlanta Constitution (April 22, 1968), p. 3. "Artist Bearden Works on Exhibit at Waitsfield." Rutland Daily Herald (Vermont) (April 14, 1967), p. 16. "Art Works Exhibition Due Here." Lima News (Ohio) (April 25, 1968), p. 19. However, they should be in this order instead: "Art in New York: Uptown." Time 84, no. 17 (October 23, 1964), pp. sec. NY, p. 5. "Art Works Exhibition Due Here." Lima News (Ohio) (April 25, 1968), p. 19. "Artist Bearden to Talk on U.S. Negro Painters." Atlanta Constitution (April 22, 1968), p. 3. "Artist Bearden Works on Exhibit at Waitsfield." Rutland Daily Herald (Vermont) (April 14, 1967), p. 16. Another example of this is as follows: In the Bearden PD general literature section, the publication Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. is before Fine, Elsa Honig. The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. But this should be the other way around.

Can we have the functionality to add Getty ULAN IDs to already existing agents in CAT and have the data from ULAN populate? Currently, if the agent already exists, you are able to add to the ULAN field, but the data from ULAN doesn't cross over.

Currently in the bibliographic index of the Bearden preview environment, publications with no authors and only editors are not being sorted with the authors and instead are being sorted with publications with neither an author or editor. We would like the publications that have editors to be sorted alphabetically with publications that have authors. For example, in the general literature tab the publication Chwast, Seymour and Steven Heller, eds. The Art of New York. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983. should be sorted under "C" between the publications with authors Chesnutt, Charles W. Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. and Cleaver, Dale G. Art: An Introduction. 4th edition. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. instead of where it is currently being sorted.

In the published CRs as well as in the Bearden preview environment, when you are on the artwork search page and sort by title, artworks with an article at the beginning of their name are sorted into the first letter of the article rather than the first letter of the actual title. For example, Degas' "La coiffure" is sorted under "L" instead of "C" and Bearden's "The Black American in Search of His Identity" is sorted under "T" instead of "B". Chicago Manual of Style dictates that articles should be ignored when sorting titles alphabetically. It would be great if the sorting function was updated to ignore articles when sorting alphabetically.

It would be nice if in the exhibition index in our published CRs, if two exhibitions had the same start date they were then sorted by their end date, with the exhibition that closed first being displayed first in the exhibition index. Two examples of this in the Bearden preview environment are as follows: "“Lafayette, Indiana, Department of Creative Arts Gallery, Purdue University, Collage: Beardon [sic], Bultman, Motherwell, Nickle, Roeber, April 1–May 2, 1969” is listed before “Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Cranbrook Galleries, Sixth Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, April 1–27, 1969” in the exhibition index, but it would be nice if it came after since it closes later. “Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Afro-American Artists, New York and Boston, May 19–June 23, 1970” is listed before “Philadelphia Museum of Art, Peace Exhibition, May 19–June 21, 1970"

Problem: We supply projects with a high quality data structure but the PD does not utilise this potential to its full extent. Searchability is limited to artworks information. Solution: Visualize available research data to help answer queries and lay out the context and networks between entities.

Proposing to have the option to assign multiple users to a single task for collaboration. At this moment, we can only assign one user per task.