Hi Emma, I agree with Andrew. Our current multimedia catalogue has parent/child relationships between carriers, that indicate which carrier is a copy / digital copy / restored version of what source file. Originally intended for AV materials, but equally useful for photographs and other items.
Best regards, Erwin Verbruggen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision ᐧ On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm.. in generic terms, it is arguable that versions of an original > photograph are derivative works. I guess it depends if you system can > record the unique ID of works from which the object in question has been > derived. > > This can be done in notes, but that is unstructured so not that useful for > digital re-use via data > > It might be worth asking someone who works in film about cataloguing. > Films have multiple variations on the underlying information problem here. > Some films are remakes and obviously version. Some have multiple "parent" > artworks from which they derive > > Sounds like a challenging one! > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:47:18 +0000 > From: Emma Jones <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [MCN-L] Version control of museum objects, especially > photographs > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I would like to get an idea of who out there has found a way to manage > multiple versions of a single object in their collections. No so much > multiple examples of the same object, rather versions of the same one. As > our photographs collection has built up over the last 100 odd years, a > variety of versions have been created of the one object for preservation, > access and other reasons. However we tend to have the "one catalogue record > to rule them all", which sadly does not truly reflect our holdings. There > are a number of ideas being put forward, but it would be great to hear how > other institutions have/haven't tackled this issue, especially in regard to > how you represent these versions in your CMS (we have XG). > Thanks > Emma > > Emma Jones > Manager, Collection Information and Access team | Collection Services > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | t 02 62434476 > Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au > > [AWM Logo not displayed in text email] > > > ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for > its recipient(s). If you have received this email by error, please delete > this e-mail from your system and notify the sender immediately. E-mail > transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure. 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But until then, as far as I know this is untested > (and VCS systems are not at their best maintaining info about binary files). > > ari > > > On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Emma Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would like to get an idea of who out there has found a way to manage > multiple versions of a single object in their collections. No so much > multiple examples of the same object, rather versions of the same one. As > our photographs collection has built up over the last 100 odd years, a > variety of versions have been created of the one object for preservation, > access and other reasons. However we tend to have the "one catalogue record > to rule them all", which sadly does not truly reflect our holdings. 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