CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE LAUNCHES COLLECTIONS ONLINE
The Canadian Centre for Architecture announces the launch of Collections Online, now accessible to scholars, researchers and the public at http://www.cca.qc.ca/collectionsonline/ in English, or http://www.cca.qc.ca/collectionsenligne/ in French, as well as through the CCA website.
What does it give access to?
CCA Collections Online provides access over the internet to the catalogue records for over 150,000 photographs, drawings, albums, models, prints, related artifacts, documents, and ephemera in the Prints and Drawings and Photographs collections. In addition, there is a link to the CCA Library Catalogue directly from Collections Online.
The CCA Collection, comprising works dating from the Renaissance to the present day, documents the culture of architecture throughout the world. It provides evidence in depth of cultural and intellectual circles of the past, points to the future of architectural thinking and practice, and reveals the changing character of thought and observation pertaining to architecture.
How do you use it?
CCA Collections Online is designed to be versatile, allowing researchers to tailor searches to their specific needs. A single interface enables users to undertake both broad and highly specific inquiries. The interface includes seven search options: keyword, personal or corporate name, title, geographic location, date, object type, and accession number. Searches can be combined as well as refined.
The cataloguing records accessible through CCA Collections Online reflect more than a decade of development involving the preparation of descriptive information on individual works, research on the creation and content of the works, as well as the compilation of bibliographies. Users also have access to records displaying research on architectural subjects and creators. Documentation of the CCA collection is an ongoing project. Works not yet catalogued in detail have brief descriptive records. The online database will be updated regularly to reflect new cataloguing and recent acquisitions. A search history is provided in the interface to allow past searches to be reviewed. For researchers who would like to consult the collection or obtain reproductions of works, guidelines are provided on the Collections Online webpage.
Future Developments
CCA Collections Online will continue to develop over the months to come. This launch is the first step in an initiative to increase access to the CCA Collection for researchers on the worldwide web. The records of the CCA Architectural Archives will be added with an interface custom-designed to facilitate access to finding aids and project records for over 130 archives of individual practitioners, offices, and collectives. The CCA Archives span the fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, primarily of the 20th and 21st centuries and with a focus on Québec and Canada.
A digitization project intended to increase access to images of works accessible via CCA Collection Online is also planned.
Collections Online was developed by CCA staff under the direction of the Chief Curator, Dirk De Meyer. For further information on Collections Online, please contact Elspeth Cowell, Assistant to the Chief Curator ([log in to unmask]).
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