SLIS 5715.002
Week 7
next week: discuss readings; lab time |
need to be working on first 20 images:
- standard size / resolution
- metadata
- anecdotes
- also be thinking about the relation / family tree
- include rights statement about permission
Metadata Readings
(discussed RLG two articles)
(discussed reference readings)
Metadata and Images (Elise Lewis, ppt)
Basics
- need metadata in order to find items (access)
- helps to organize a collection
- managers, users, and objects themselves (preservation) need metadata
- must be cost-effective (find a balance)
- interoperability enables a collection to interact with other collections
- automated vs. human interaction
Types of Metadata
- structural
- descriptive
- administrative
- technical
- preservation
- rights
Structural Metadata
- compound objects (relation of objects to each other)
- thumbnail, web copy, archival copy = 1 object
- artist's statement, image = 1 object
Descriptive Metadata
- most used by user
- thesauri / controlled vocabulary
- content (physical description) vs. concept (abstract part)
- content: woman holding a cloth with a face on it; concept: St. Veronica
- is-ness vs. about-ness
- content-based image retrieval (my paper on the topic)
Administrative Metadata
- manage resources
- unique aspects to images
- technical
- camera model
- settings
- has it been retouched
- lighting
- preservation
- original condition (of analog item)
- version
- file format
- software used
- rights
- intellectual rights
- copyright
- permissions information
Schema
- some elements are very specific; some are broad
- maintain interoperability
- defines the important elements (required)
- image-specific
- syntactical rules
Dublin Core
- cross-disciplinary
- from Library of Congress
- works fine with images
- is expandable and repeatable
Image Metadata Schema
- VRA Core
- used for art and museum images
- style/period
- materials
- culture
- CDWA
- condition
- provenance (for museums)
- orientation (?)
Interactive Image Metadata
- METS
- acts as a wrapper
- allows executables
- MODS
- MPEG Multimedia Metadata Standard
Discussion
- what is your record level?
- example: DC Creator
- item-level (digital) or object-level (analog)
- image of a house; is the DC Creator:
- creator of the physical house?
- creator of the analog image?
- creator of the digital image?
About Metadata Report
- looking for similar doc. to DC Metadata Element Set (not that detailed)
- particularly section #5 element name, label, definition
- tailored to your collection
- specify which are repeatable
- (I might want to include some kind of statement about name authority / controlled vocabulary / input rules, etc.)
The Breakdown
- class/type
- administrative
- preservation
- descriptive
- structural
- schemes
- elements
Discussion About Elements
- title
- creator
- (specifically, could be author, artist, photographer, composer)
- add qualifiers: digital creator, photographer, artist, etc. (in the case of digital photography...?)
- subject
- (aboutness)
- need to decide thesaurus / controlled vocabulary (look for genealogical / archival)
- type
- format
- genre
- description
- contributor
- language
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