Hello all,
I am calling upon the collective wisdom of the list.
Please excuse any cross postings.
Does anyone know of a controlled vocabulary list / thesaurus
of keywords for concepts and conceptual terms, such as emotions, to describe
images? As some of you know, keywords such as happiness, hardship,
depression, and the like are quite useful to include in image descriptions.
Bridgeman is hoping to enhance standards for image metadata
by collaborating with MILE, a metadata project taking place in the
We are also deeply committed to SILVER, an educational
initiative in the
Both of these projects would benefit from a controlled
vocabulary for concepts and we are trying to create one. It would also be
helpful to us as a commercial image provider (www.bridgemanart.com ) and an
educational image provider (www.bridgemaneducation.com).
If there are any currently existing controlled vocabularies out
there it would help us tremendously.
Any help in this regard would be most appreciated. If
you wish to reply off -list, I will summarize any findings for the list.
Thank you in advance,
Wendy
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Wendy Zieger
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The Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd
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