Howard and all,
I rather naturally thought of the AP picture archive and tried to find
if their thesaurus was available. I don't see it on the website:
http://accuweather.ap.org/cgi-bin/aplaunch.pl
When I look at search results, I also don't see how they've gotten
there from the "what" search I did. Perhaps you could check in with
them to see if they make their thesaurus available, recognizing that it
might be a business decision as well.
Susan Jane's overview of the value of controlled vocabularies seemed
pretty complete to me. MARC and LCSH are great (or at least long-lived,
which is valuable in itself) tools for comprehensive collections of
library resources. Picture collections are special beasts and
iconography may be a bit tough with LCSH.
I did see your message on VRA-L and ARLIS-L. Did you also send it to
the visualmat list of the SAA Visual Materials Section?
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/VMhome.html
A Google search on "picture thesaurus" also yielded:
Australian Pictorial Thesaurus = http://www.picturethesaurus.gov.au/
Authority Files for Cataloging Pictures: Common Choices (from LC Prints
& Photographs) = http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/228_authfile.html
Syracuse U picture file subject list =
http://library.syr.edu/information/finearts/picturefile/pfthesaurus1.htm
etc.
Hope some of this is useful.
Sherman Clarke
NYU Libraries
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From: Howard Brainen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, December 18, 2006 0:14 am
Subject: [VRA-L] Need for controlled vocabularies
> Good Monday morning,
>
> I'm consulting for a large organization on a transition to a
> centralizedphoto image library. The money is there for software,
> hardware and
> services, but they don't (yet) see the need for a librarian to set
> up a
> controlled vocabulary. I've advised them to do this before trying
> to ingest
> tens of thousands of existing records into their new DAM system.
>
> I'm looking for some examples I can provide that will help
> convince them.
> Please share any analogies you find useful in understanding this.
> Pleasealso share any links to existing online libraries that
> provide an example of
> doing it right (or wrong).
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
> Howard Brainen
> Digital Imaging Consultant
> TWO CAT DIGITAL
> 14719 Catalina Street
> San Leandro, CA 94577
> 510-940-2670 ext 201
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>
> Member: VRA, ARLIS/NA, MCN, SAA
>
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