Contemplating Photography

www.niso.org/standards/ resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf

- good resource

- database has to be merged with 21st century

- contribute to knowledge about our discipline

- data that’s reliable and structured to talk to other data – need standards

- many standards developed to meet different needs – museums, archives, libraries

- visual resources association – states – building collections and information

- depends on type of information and collection

- many metadata schemes – many different types of information, needs to meet different needs – has different needs

- need to decide what type is right for you, the institution, the collection, data type etc.

- need to follow standard, need to find a system (technology) to provide interface to the metadata

- ryerson library – search other libraries – worldwide libraries – libdex – index of libraries (search by country or opac vendors – vendors for software for library catalogs)

-OPAC – online public access catalog

- software option – will need to decide – piece of software to implement in the instittution

- GEH – TMS (relationship metadata)

- look at software packages for archives, museums

- interoperability – diff. systems can communicate/share information – usually do this through crosswalks

- crosswalks – translations/translators,

- metadata – can be separate from the object (i.e marc record)

- encoded – metadata is in the object, tagging

- understand how complex the schemas are

- Crosswalks – mapping schemas to each other – migrating data

- data conversions – big issue for most places – need to be interoperable

Exercise-

- marc to dublin core: lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html

- proprietary systems vs. open source (which is what we have been working with – php, myadmin)

- archivist wants to use proprietary systems