Wendy,

 

I worked on a subject cataloging project for the collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  This involved creating a controlled vocabulary.  I combined that Art and Architectural Thesaurus, Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, and Library of Congress Authorities.  Since this cataloging covered pre-iconographic, iconographic, and iconological attributes, concepts and emotions were included.  TGM has some useful entries for these types of attributes.  However, for effective indexing, I don’t think it will be enough by itself. 

 

The project is still being worked on at the PMA, so you might want to contact them.  However, I would be more than happy to help out.  I’m a bit of an image index theory nerd. 

 

 

 

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 UK (www.mileproject.eu).

We are also deeply committed to SILVER, an educational initiative in the UK that is developing new digital learning environments (www.silvereducation.org).

 

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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