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Collection Definition in Digital Resource Development
2005
This white paper and attached pre-prints are part of the three-year interim project report for the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project, summarizing major findings October 2002 through September 2005. Project is hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Project Director is Timothy W. Cole (t-cole@uiuc.edu). Full report is available at http://imlsdcc.grainger .uiuc.edu. The material in this report is based upon work supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under IMLS National Leadership Grant Award No.
Collection Definition in Digital Resource Development White Paper
2005
In the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project we have created a registry of digital collections produced by IMLS NLG initiative grantees, while development of an item level repository is ongoing. That work included development of a collection description schema. 1 Concurrently, the DCC research team has been examining metadata practices of the NLG projects and their implications for collection federation.
Proposal for an IMLS Collection Registry and Metadata Repository
2002
Abstract: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign proposes to design, implement, and research a collection-level registry and item-level metadata repository service that will aggregate information about digital collections and items of digital content created using funds from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants. This work will be a collaboration by the University Library and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Metadata Standards Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums
In recent years, there has been much discussion about cultural heritage institutions, particularly libraries, archives, and museums which are commonly referred to as LAMs. While each continues to operate independently of the others, it has become increasingly true that libraries, archives, and museums share some of the same goals, resources, and clientele, and therefore have collaborated in a variety of ways to the benefit of all involved, including on programs and events. Indeed, the idea that LAMs have so much in common has propelled much of the literature that is written about the cultural institutions, prompting many to laud the various successful collaborations between LAMs or predict the eventual convergence of the three to the point of each becoming indistinguishable from the next. In an effort to meet the needs of the user, LAMs have transcended the traditional boundaries that exist between these cultural institutions by reaching out to each other to accomplish a common goal, which currently extends to the need for a universal content standard that is useful to libraries, archives, and museums.
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2012
One of the strengths of the book is that it brings much needed intellectual analysis to recent developments to the Internet and web culture. For too long, books and articles on this topic have been the domain of superficial cheerleading for new technologies. There has been a lack of philosophical and theoretical analysis, which this book provides in spades. This leads to the interesting question: Who is this book's intended audience? The book is of little practical use to a librarian. The complexity of the philosophical references and arguments put forth make the appropriate audience to be philosophy or semiotics graduate students. The authors make no reference to the appropriate library literature, despite the profession having written a great deal about controlled vocabularies and indexing language. For those who have an interest in the theory of knowledge systems or the semantic web, this book is a must read. Even though it is not a practical book and requires a commitment on the part of the reader, it can be fascinating, and in the case of the sections by Magee, a scintillating philosophical examination of the current state of scholarly communication.
Proceedings of the 2002 …, 2002
In an environment of rapid technological change, collection managers face the challenge of ensuring that valuable resources remain accessible when there are changes to the technological context in which those resources are embedded. In this context of requiring "accessibility over time", digital preservation initiatives also demand for interoperability, or as what Hedstrom calls temporal interoperability. But first, libraries, especially in the academic world, need some general guidelines to assist in selectively choosing digital resources which are of great need to collect and preserve. This paper attempts to provide some structure for the concepts and ideas on a general collection management decision guide in the form of a requirements analysis framework that may assist in determining the metadata granularity required for digital resource management within an archive. The objective is for metadata and mechanisms to be shared among digital archives, but policies can be tailored to the requirements of the organization.
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
The paper describes part of the conceptual structure produced within the still ongoing project B.A.C.K. TO T.H.E. F.U.T.U.RE. (BIM Acquisition as Cultural Key TO Transfer Heritage of ancient Egypt For many Uses To many Users REplayed). The aim of the project was to use a semantic web infrastructure to describe archival research and tracking informations related to a hidden museum collection 'expedition models of Egyptian architecture' partially stored in the depots of the Museo Egizio of Turin. The outcome will be an interactive web-presentation portal of high-resolution 3D models enriched by historical and archival set of content, from the digitization procedure applied to collection objects, to the digitization process of related data and information. The development of the collection documentation of the project illustrates how is crucial to declare the semantic description underlying narrative contents. Data about single collection objects were conceptually modelled using generalizable formulas already known by CIDOC-CRM community. The description of provenance of knowledge related to the historical investigation process was modelled using CRMinf extension, exploring the possibility of making beliefs based on the available documentation and validating the results of the assumptions made during the research.
Evolving an in-house system to integrate the management of digital collections
Library Hi Tech, 2006
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This paper/poster introduces the threefold dimension of collections documentation as activity, means and product. After an examination of current documentation practices through well-established documentation standards, we argue that in current practices, documentation functions as means for preservation and care of museum objects. However the function of documentation as a means that improves understanding, interpretation and engagement with collections is not supported, because of the current structure, the scope and purpose of documentation. Finally, a new approach that invites users' perspectives in documentation is proposed.