carleton image collection oclc/contentdm users group meeting october 16, 2006
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Carleton Image Collection
OCLC/CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting
October 16, 2006
Search Images Created by
Albert Bierstadt,
An Artist 1830-1902
13 images from California Images 5 images from McKinsey Collection 1 from Visual Resources Collection
Challenge #1
Image Quality
Metadata Standards : VRA Core version 3.0 (Visual Resources
Association)
Authority Control Library of Congress Authorities (LC) Union List of Artists Names (ULAN)
Examples of Artists’ Names
LC Name Entry : Brown, Joan Brown, Joan, 1938- Brown, Joan, 1945-
ULAN Artist Name: Brown, Joan (1938-1990)
LC Name Entry : Keith, William, 1838-1911
ULAN Artist Name: Keith, William (1839-1911)
Challenges (continuing)
Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
AAT Standard Work type i.e. collage, etching, etchings Media i.e. architecture Culture i.e. American, French
Local practice Period i.e. 19th century, 20th century Era/Decade i.e. 1880s or 1880-1889, 1920s or 1920-1929 Ethnic features i.e. Chinese, Indian, Mexican
Controlled Vocabulary - Keyword Search
Relevancy Precision Accuracy
Who cares! Who cares!
2004 – ARTstor Pilot Project
Summer of 2005 – CONTENTdm
Summer of 2006 – 4 sub-collections created
History of Digital Imaging for Art and Art History
Making the transition
A classroom image lecture tool that is easier to use than slides
Content (an entire slide collection)
A faculty ready to jump on the digital bandwagon
Challenge #2
Delivery Mechanism and Presentation Tool
CONTENTdm PowerPoint Plug in
Offline Image Viewer (OIV) Zooming features
Carleton develops Save Zip feature for CONTENTdm
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