Day 2, Group 1

The mandate of the Cataloguing Structure research committee is to identify the required elements that need to be added to the existing collection management systems in museums, for the cataloguing of artworks containing technological components. During the past year, the emphasis of the research has been concentrated on the identification of several artworks, within the collections of participating museums, that pose important challenges, each in its own way, in terms of cataloguing and preservation. Four artworks have been selected at the Musée d’art contemporain to serve the purpose of case studies from which preliminary results are now available.

Madeleine Lafaille is a Heritage Information Analyst with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN). For the past 25 years, she has been working in the museum field as a museum professional. She is a specialist in documentation and museum collections information management systems. Within this area of expertise, she has worked on the development and application of metadata and vocabulary standards for museum collections, as well as supervised numerous projects dealing with the creation of digital heritage content in museums. After completing a B.A. in History and Anthropology, Madeleine Lafaille obtained a Museology Master’s degree at the Université de Montréal. She is currently completing her PhD in Information Science at l’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) de l’Université de Montréal. Her doctoral research project focuses on the semantic interoperability of organizational systems of information for museum collections. She is also interested in the convergence of information between library, archival and museum collections.

Anne-Marie Zeppetelli joined the archival collections department of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) in 1989 and has been the museum’s collections registrar since 2000. She studied art history and fine arts, earning a Masters degree in Fine Arts at Concordia University in 1994. She has had many years of experience in museology, having begun her career as a photographer and documentalist at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1982. In 1997, she participated in the development and implementation of a new data management system for MACM’s collections and also worked on a number of projects to disseminate works of art on the Web. Notable among these was Artimage, a Web site created in collaboration with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. More recently, she has represented the MACM on the International Committee on Digital Art, coordinated by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).