iSchool Capstone

Beverly Pepper Studio Archive: Arrangement, Collections Management and Access

Project tags:

archives & special collections

content & digital asset management

knowledge organization

Project poster

In her 60+ year career creating monumental public sculpture, American artist Beverly Pepper has generated thousands of production documents, negatives, photographs, films, videos, ephemera, catalogs and books. At 94, she is still making art but her studio in Todi, Italy lacks a digital collections management system to assist with cataloging and access. After assessing her studio collection, creating controlled vocabularies and test installing the CollectiveAccess CMS, this project presents the The Beverly Pepper Foundation with software evaluations, budgets and and metadata guidelines to begin the much needed and long overdue process of arranging the studio archive.

Project participants:

Gregory Whitmore

MLIS