Cataloguing means the high-level process of adding metadata to assets in a Digital Asset Management system.

Indexing Adding and editing textual data to a database of digital assets, including descriptions, captions, keywords / tags, creating relationships between items.

Factual information about a lot offered for sale, such as the name of the artist or maker, a detailed description of the object, the year of its creation, its provenance (history of its ownership), major exhibitions in which it has appeared and publications in which it has been documented. This information is published in the auction catalogue, in [..]

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