Hi Boyce, We worked on this at the Brooklyn Museum a couple of years ago and came up with our own template -- there's nothing out there that's a "standard." My email to the people who responded to my inquiry -- pretty much parallel to yours -- is below. I'll send you the project documentation and template directly (and would be glad to share with others who respond to me at [email protected]).
We've started loading images and data into our DAMS for the BM_Life collection and it's going smoothly, though the metadata creation is much more intensive than when working with the object collections, where we're drawing much of the description from our collections system. I'll know more about how well it works for access purposes once we release it to the full staff -- some tech steps still have to happen for that. Best, Deborah Wythe Digital Collections and Services Brooklyn Museum From: Deborah Wythe Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 3:00 PM Subject: Museum_Life metadata template A bit more than a year ago, you all responded to my inquiry below about a metadata template for candid photography. Two intrepid grad interns, Mary Curran and Diana Krell, worked on the project in spring 2013, making a great deal of progress in identifying necessary fields and proposing controlled vocabularies based on the needs of our internal “customers.” The next step, which required me to carve out some time to work with our Technology staff, was to create the template within our Luna DAMS and test it with some sample images and data. I finally accomplished that this winter. I’m attaching a spreadsheet with the field structure and some sample data. It’s a fairly simple many (images) to one (event) relationship, with a number of controlled vocabularies embedded in each. Next steps will be to create event records and batch load images with basic metadata to link up with them. More detailed description (image notes and keywords) will probably be added within the DAMS, item by item, though some sets that are more consistent may be able to have keywords loaded across the batch. While it’s a custom template, most of the image fields can be mapped the CDWA. The event data does not (though I guess you could consider an event a “work” but that seems a stretch). I would be grateful for any comments or suggestions! Best, Deb Deborah Wythe Head of Digital Collections and Services Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 tel: 718 501 6311 fax: 718 501 6145 [email protected] Hello! We're starting to work on developing a metadata template for what I call "Museum life" images -- events, activities, people, programs -- so that we can fold them into our DAMS and make them more accessible to staff. I recall a session a couple of years ago where there was some discussion of this topic. Are you working on this? Have you solved it? I would love to "convene" a group of folks to compare notes and develop something that could be a model for others. I have two grad interns who are going to take on the project in the new year who could compile and report back our findings. [email protected] > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 14:28:30 +0000 > Subject: [MCN-L] Metadata fields for people/place/event images > > Hi All: > > For a number of years we've been digitizing plant images from staff, > departmental and institutional collections at the Chicago Botanic Garden. > Working with a number of other institutions we created and implemented some > standardized terms and abbreviations for the various parts of plants featured > in these images. > > Recently we expanded our efforts and began digitizing a fairly robust > collection of images documenting the history of the Chicago Botanic Garden > from a people, place and event standpoint. Can any of you provide links to > accepted metadata definitions and terms for these non-plant images? > > Many thanks, > > Boyce Tankersley > Director of Living Plant Documentation > Chicago Botanic Garden > 1000 Lake Cook Road > Glencoe, IL 60022 > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 847-835-6841 > Fax: 847-835-1635 > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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