Carleton Image Collection

OCLC/CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting

October 16, 2006

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

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)

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)

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

Controlled Vocabulary - Keyword Search

Relevancy Precision Accuracy

Who cares! Who cares!

2004 – ARTstor Pilot Project

Summer of 2005 – CONTENTdm

Summer of 2006 – 4 sub-collections created

History of Digital Imaging for Art and Art History

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

Challenge #2

Delivery Mechanism and Presentation Tool

CONTENTdm PowerPoint Plug in

Offline Image Viewer (OIV) Zooming features

Carleton develops Save Zip feature for CONTENTdm