Whether you are documenting a personal collection or producing a catalogue raisonné Tessera features an extensive suite of features to help you complete the task.
Highlighting Tessera features most suitable for use by cataloguers. All of these features are available to artists, collectors, cataloguers and galleries alike.
Documentation
Attach any number of files such as contracts or letters to an artwork, link relevant websites, add any number of images and videos.
Produce comprehensive reports on an artist’s works
Collections
Create collections of artworks to quickly display groups of artworks.
Add your comments to artworks
Add any number of comments to artworks. Mark comments that require attention. Review comments that require attention from a single screen.
Multiple option entries for fields
Artwork Dashboard
Review artwork details from a single screen
Add any number of keywords
Improve searching and cataloging artworks with the use of multiple keywords.
Multiple data entry fields
Add any number of custom fields for additional data
Compliant with Dublin Core Metadata
Fields in Tessera accompanied by a star icon belong to The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. This is a vocabulary of fifteen properties for use in resource description widely used by a range of organizations interested in facilitating movement of data between organizations.
You can use these fields as you would any other data field in Tessera. These fields have an accompanying extra field accessed under the star icon where additional values can be added. Allowing, for example, for an artwork to be given several titles or dates.
The fifteen element “Dublin Core” is part of a larger set of metadata vocabularies and technical specifications maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Comprehensive control over printing
Control the size of images and the text details that accompany them.
Extensive export options
Where required move your data to spreadsheets or word-processors.
