Hi MCN community, We are evaluating our approach to the data surrounding our exhibition records and permanent collection installations. We are interested to learn how other institutions manage the metadata surrounding their own exhibitions.
At the moment we have basic set of information we capture about our exhibitions as part of our business processes (dates, titles, objects and agents associated with the exhibition, etc.) which are stored our collections management system. But what metadata specifically about your exhibitions do your institutions capture? Do you have specific people who add it, and do they have a particular method of adding it? Do you use any controlled vocabularies beyond standards like the Getty Thesauri or LOC authorities? We are also very curious if you and store your exhibition/installation metadata only in your systems of record, like TMS. Do you capture additional metadata in your DAMS beyond what can be replicated from other systems? Beyond that, we have been investigating the efficacy of capturing more descriptive information about exhibitions such as subjects, cultures styles/periods, and keywords to assist in discovery. Does anyone else capture that type of metadata? If so, how? Do you allow users to create their own subjects and/or keywords? If so, do you attempt to control their terminology? We would be thrilled if you have any institutional best practices you would be willing to share. Thanks all! Hope you're all managing this lockdown period well. Jonathan Hoppe Digital Asset Librarian t 215-684-7926 Philadelphia Museum of Art PO Box 7646, Philadelphia, PA 19101-7646 www.philamuseum.org<http://www.philamuseum.org/> _______________________________________________ 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]/
