Carleton Image Collection

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Carleton Image Collection
OCLC/CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting October 16,
2006
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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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Controlled Vocabulary - Keyword Search
Who cares!
Who cares!

• Relevancy
• Precision
• Accuracy

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History of Digital Imaging for Art and Art
History

• 2004 ARTstor Pilot Project

• Summer of 2005 CONTENTdm

• Summer of 2006 4 sub-collections created

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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

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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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