Organization, Representation and Description through the Digital Age: Information in Libraries, Archives and Museums

✍ Scribed by Christine M. Angel (editor); Caroline Fuchs (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cataloging standards practiced within the traditional library, archive and museum environments are not interoperable for the retrieval of objects within the shared online environment. Within today’s information environments, library, archive and museum professionals are becoming aware that all information objects can be linked together. In this way, information professionals have the opportunity to collaborate and share data together with the shard online cataloging environment, the end result being improved retrieval effectiveness. But the adaptation has been slow: Libraries, archives and museums are still operating within their own community-specific cataloging practices.

This book provides a historical perspective of the evolution of linking devices within the library, archive, and museums environments, and captures current cataloging practices in these fields. It offers suggestions for moving beyond community-specific cataloging principles and thus has the potential of becoming a springboard for further conversation and the sharing of ideas.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Cataloging Technologies and its Influence on the Organization and Description of Information
1. The Historical Use of Catalogs in the Arrangement of Knowledge in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: A Survey
Part II: The Transition from Analog to Digital. Web 1.0
2. Analog to Digital: The Growing Pains of a Religious Archive Migrating its Administrative Collections
3. The Theory was Sound: A Case Study in the Lifecycle of a Library Streaming Sound Collection
4. Digital Access Enhancement Initiative at the National Music Museum
5. Cataloging and Description Practices Informed by Rationale in a Small LAM Environment
Part III: Finding Structure. Making Connections. Web 2.0
6. Digital Archival Representation: Approaches and Challenges
7. Linking Items, Connecting Content: The Donald Thomson Collection
8. Information Management Systems at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
9. Art Information Culture: Contemporary Disruptions in Museums
10. How Metadata Informs Purpose: A Case Study of NYPL’s Open Source GIS-Driven MapWarper Tool
Part IV: Transition to Web 3.0
11. Transcribe as Seen: Challenging RDA Regarding Gender in Moving Image Materials
12. Cultural Heritage Curriculum Crosswalk: Using Metadata to Connect to Curriculum
13. Optimizing Merged Metadata Standards for Online Community History: A Linked Open Data Approach
14. Evolution and Revolution in Metadata Librarianship: Identifying New Requirements for Professional Qualifications amid Organizational Change
15. Increasing Interoperability through the Transformation and the Consolidation of Image Collections’ Metadata
16. Large Scale with a Small Staff and Even Smaller Budget: Updating Metadata to Reflect Revised Best Practices
17. Bringing the Archives Out of the Art Museum: Local Metadata Planning within a Global Context
18. Experiments in High Resolution Imaging for Exhibition and Publication of Historic Fashion: The Drexel Digital Museum Project
About the authors
Index