Dear Barbara,
One step you should take is to get in touch with the Visual Resources
Association (www.vraweb.org), whose members' specialty is managing
images, cataloging them, and making them accessible.
The VRA Data Standards Committee has a lot of information available on
cataloging images. The VRA Core categories is a set of elements used
for cataloging images. The Core can also be found on the VRA web
site, with explanation about the Core.
There are guidlines for cataloging objects and images of objects that
is underway - Cataloging Cultural Objects and Their Images - sponsored
by the VRA, the Getty, and the Digital Library Federation. These
guidelines will be presented in a workshop at the upcoming VRA
conference in Houston (April 7-12). The guidelines are being written
to show people how to create authority files, how to use controlled
vocabularies, and how to select, describe, and format data.
I suggest you look at the VRA web site, and contact any of the members
of the Data Standards Committee for more information.
Cheers,
Ann Whiteside
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> I'm sorry, I sent this request out earlier with the wrong subject.
>
> I am looking for a class/instruction/direction/a book even about
cataloging
> digital images. Our federal agency has just purchased Cumulus and
they will
> provide software training. But I need help in developing the
taxonomy,
> cataloging, and describing the images. We have about 50,000 images.
I will
> probably assist in training 5 people to input the information into
Cumulus.
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or direction.
>
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> Barbara Janis, M.L.I.S.
> Librarian
> Presidio Trust
> P. O. Box 29052
> San Francisco, CA 94129-0052
> Phone: 415-561-5343
> Fax: 415-561-5303
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Ann Whiteside
Director, Fine Arts Library
University of Virginia
Past President, VRA
Bayly Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4131
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