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- Ann Whiteside, University of Virginia
- Trish Rose, University of California, San Diego
- DLF Forum, October 26, 2004
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- Data standards
- promote consistent
recording of information
- promote data sharing
- Improve management of content
- Reduce redundancy of effort
- Enhance research and retrieval
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- Data Standards
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
- VRA Core categories (2.0 and 3.0)
- Vocabularies
- Getty thesauri
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Union List of Artists Names
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- The cultural heritage
community has not had content standards
- AACR does not meet the same needs
- Early metadata initiatives
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- Visual Resources Association sponsored
- Developed with funding from DLF, the Getty, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
- Goals
- Promote good practice in descriptive cataloging
- Facilitate shared documentation
- Enhance end-user access
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- Museum professionals
- Visual Resources professionals
- Librarians
- Archivists
- Others who document cultural objects and their images
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- Primary emphasis is descriptive metadata
- Choice of terms used in description
- Define the order, syntax,and form
- Other standards referenced
- Data structure
- Data values
- Data communications and interchange standards
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- Cultural objects
- Paintings, sculpture, prints, manuscripts, photographs, other visual
media
- Architecture
- Archaeological sites
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- Vetting process
- CCO Advisory Committee
- Comments solicited from the various communities
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- Presentations and workshops
- Formal review program
- “Community Space”
- Encourage implementation
- Identify educational opportunities
- Act as a voice for the cultural heritage communities
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- http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html
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- A tool for image catalogers
- Focus is on work and image metadata, not delivery of digital images
- “Art” is used loosely and meant broadly
- A proof-of-concept, prototype database
- The technical infrastructure for a static database of approx. 750,000
records
- Multi-phase project
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- weak delineations of work/image definitions
- inconsistency in cataloging practices within institutions
- absence of “mature” community descriptive standards.
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- "If your content is good, if it is consistent, you have what you
need to feed different record formats or different systems. If your
content is not based on standards and if your coding of the content is
irregular, no record format can save you"
- ~ Karen Coyle http://www.kcoyle.net/marcdead/marcdead.html
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- Requires:
- Time
- Meets local needs
- Meets shared cataloging
needs
- Legacy records need to be
superceded by
records based on standards
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