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Re: [ARLIS-L] Need for controlled
vocabularies
Hi Howard, et al,
You might take a look at what our UK colleagues have put
together.
TASI, the Technical Advisory Service for Images (http://www.tasi.ac.uk/index.html) has a whole
section develoted to metadata advice, with links to metadata
vocabularies (http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/vocabs.html)
and more.
AHDS Visual Arts
(http://ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/about/), based at The Surrey Institute
of Art & Design, University College -- one of five Subject Centres
of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), provides an
online guide titled: 'Creating Digital Resources
for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice' (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide/contents.html)
which includes a section on 'Standards for Data
Documentation in the Visual Arts.'
Some of the information on these sites might well help you
convince your organization.
The standard (cliche) analogy is 'garbage in, garbage out.'
I know of a unit at a certain institution that is sitting on lot's of
digital files from early digitization projects with no metadata
attached to the files. Thus there is no means for users to
retrieve these files since there is no data field to search. The
sad thing is that these images could help us answer reference
questions, and much time was spend on the digitization project.
Metadata creation for these images is indeed on a list of desired
enhancements but one wonders why digitization was a priority but
access was not.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Janine Henri
Good Monday morning,
I'm consulting for a large organization
on a transition to a centralized photo 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. Please also 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
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