JHU Museum Studies Spring 2010

Cataloguing Museum Collections

History, Trends, and Issues

Michael Jenkins

Week 3: Cataloguing Collection Objects

• Cataloguing for physical stewardship• Cataloguing for access• Cataloguing for documentation• How are they similar?• How are they different?• Is technology changing this?

Cataloguing for Physical Stewardship

Cataloguing for Access

Cataloguing for Access

Cataloguing for Documentation

Blurring of the Types of Cataloguing

http://thegallerysd.blogspot.com/2009/11/discovering-rosalba-carriera.html

The Future of Object Cataloguing?

Reading and Assignment

• Read– Green, D. (2007), "Museums, Cataloging & Content Infrastructure:

An Interview with Kenneth Hamma" in Academic Commons, http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/interview/ken-hamma

• Write– Catalogue a product for sale at Amazon.com. Include fieldnames

and data values. Describe who is responsible for creating the data values. If there are authorities used to control the data values in a field, describe them. Note whether fields are used for search, display, or both. Note whether data values are required and whether they can repeat.

Discussions

• In your first post to the discussion forum this week, pose a question to your classmates about this week’s reading.

• After you have asked a question, answer the question from one of your classmates.