Ml. Zeng, Metadata elements for object description and representation: A case reportfrom a digitized historical fashion collection project, J AM S INFO, 50(13), 1999, pp. 1193-1208
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Library & Information Science
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
This project's goal is to develop a catalog for a digitized collection of h
istorical fashion objects held at the Kent State University Museum and to a
nalyze and evaluate how well existing metadata formats can be applied to a
fashion collection. The project considered the known and anticipated uses o
f the collection and the identification of the metadata elements that would
be needed to support these uses. From a set of 90 museum accession records
, 42 fashion objects were selected for cataloging. Three metadata treatment
s were created for these 42 items using (a) the Anglo-American Cataloguing
Rules (AACR) in use with the United States MAchine-Readable Cataloging (USM
ARC) formats, (b) the Dublin Core set of elements designed for minimal leve
l cataloging, and (c) the Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core Categorie
s for Visual Resources created for developing local databases and catalogin
g records for visual resources collections. Comparison and analysis of the
formats resulted in the adoption of a modified VRA metadata format to catal
og the entire digitized historical fashion collection.