Issues in visual resources cataloging
compiled by Sherman Clarke

• VRA Core
  • http://php.indiana.edu/%7Efryp/vracore3.htm

  • Subject - topic and iconography and genre

• clustering of records

  • is there any “truth” to a description as there is with a book, etc.?

  • FRBR levels: work, expression, manifestation, item

    • http://library.arts.usf.edu/mcrae/CommonGround/session.htm

    • http://www.ifla.org/V/saur.htm (UBCIM publications, new series, v. 19)

    • can you interfile them?

    • collection-level records: is there a parallel in VR world?

  • historical metadata: can it just be another member of the cluster? relation to authority work - need for “native” data vs collective data - shared portion of cluster (OCLC vs RLIN as model for shared database; one would do something halfway between)

  • quality of metadata: vendor, hand-constructed, professor vs curator

    • marking source of metadata and relation to evolution of record

  • clustering through indexing - reliable?

• authority work

  • description (the “truth”) - scholarly respect

  • uniform title: named works, unnamed works, sites

  • hierarchy

  • place name: NAF’s constructed headings, TGN’s names in hierarchy

  • multiple thesauri
    • headings that conflict

    • marking source of heading

  • loading of records and authorities
    • record cleansing on the authority processing model

    • authority record and historical metadata

• thumbnail as metadata

• classification and ID numbers (native, shared, repository, classification and inherent subject hierarchy)

• “same image” and view in a shared database - “favorite”

Last updated: 16 May 2002