Why isn't art and objects of art, cataloged in the marc record format, or are they?
It seems that in general, large or small collection museums differentiate their book, manuscript, documents, ect from their art collections.
With the Marc record obtaining more universal acceptance yearly as the medium for cataloging collections from sheet music to DVD's, bibliographic material to video tapes, offering consortia's of collections in Web based public access catalogs format. These collections feature accessibility by known and very familiar searching parameters, with the ability of virtual image data base features.
But instead we sponsor a host of start up technologies for stand alone virtual image data base sites featuring perhaps Museum / collection software products that won't function well outside their unique framework.
One could in a consortia, web public access catalog envirement, search for a specific publication on Tiffany glass, reserve the publication via an inter collection loan request, search for a specific Tiffany vase and view the piece and all the information regardng it. Truly a seemless solution. All via Marc record data base functions.
Your thoughts please.
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